Art and Technology

Historically speaking, there is no loss of words for the debate about art, and more specifically, that of high art. To first enter into the debate, one must consider high art from both a primitive and Modern point of view. David Weinberger’s idea of the new order of order in his book, Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder, the idea of order is really nothing new at all, but it’s the idea of organized disorder that has the world running amok. Art has been dissected and classified, reclassified, and categorized so that there are no such things as miscellaneous art. Fundamentally speaking, fine or high art describes the disciplines that include painting and sculpture, then applied arts house the areas of crafts and other functional designs, and lastly there are the performing arts that have dance and theater, disciplines that utilize more than just the sense of sight. To classify art so terminally, has worked for a majority of the existence of art, but the lines have started to blur and the definitions tested and rewritten. How is the already highly debatable definition of high art being further challenged by the introduction of new, technologically advanced Medias?