{"id":8870,"date":"2013-04-13T00:58:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-13T07:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nearfuturelaboratory.com\/pasta-and-vinegar\/?p=6171"},"modified":"2017-08-18T17:57:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T17:57:14","slug":"arttech-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/2013\/04\/13\/arttech-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"Art\/tech scene"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAn interesting quote seen in this NYT article<\/a> I saw today:<\/p>\n

“\u201cI\u2019ve been a bit disappointed by the disconnect between New York City\u2019s art world and technology space,\u201d he wrote in an e-mail later. \u201cIt\u2019s extremely rare to see start-up people at gallery openings, for instance.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are all sorts of plausible explanations: the tech industry is relatively new (especially in New York); its members are young, busy and most did not plod through four years\u2019 worth of liberal arts syllabuses.<\/p>\n

But as many in the art world point out, there is no reason new-media moguls cannot get a remedial art education now.<\/i>“<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Why do I blog this?<\/b> This remark about NYC would totally stand here in the Geneva\/Lausanne area. Apart from certain exceptions, I generally feel the same disconnection. Although it’s hard to see what groups we are talking about here (tech moguls, developers, designers, new media artists), I don’t see many connections betweens these different people. When we started Lift a while back, we had intuition that it would be valuable to foster such a mix, and we were right. However, it’s kind of hard, for various reasons. Three of them bother me a lot:<\/p>\n