Art and Technology

            The combination of art and technology is a very expansive subject. To me it highlights the research of inquiry as stated by Irwin as he discusses artist/ scientists into a category of the passionately curious. I enjoyed the part of the reading that discussed how art can be viewed as an experience; and that art is the actual experience that the person is having while viewing or interacting with the object. The experiments that involved the creating of environments and the documentation of the person’s experience in that environment are very interesting. I know for myself it would be very hard to simply sit in a dark room with no sound or sense of depth or space. But I found it more interesting that their most impressionable experience after leaving the room was the sense of the world around them from the trees to the streets, the author’s sense of observation was significantly increased. Like Irwin explains about his walk home after the anechoic experience in the room; nothing was different around him; yet he seemed much more observant of his surroundings.  Wortz explained how the anechoic experiences provoked many other experiments with perception also. After the experiments with situational behavior and environments, the artists/scientists worked on the research for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to begin the research for the habitability of space during long-term space flight. This artist’s study was very beneficial to the advancement in space-flight environment research. It is inspiring that the research and passionate inquiry into the study of situational behavior lead to the benefit of the space program.