英文【英国文化教育协会】为何科技需要艺术家：40个国际视角

Edited by Hannah Andrews and Aurora Hawcroft4 Why technology needs artists: 40 international perspectivesDOI: https://doi.org/10.57884/Z34F-0732 Copyright © British Council 2025. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial 4.0 International Licence (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Andrews, H., & Hawcroft, A. (eds.) (2025). Why technology needs artists: 40 international perspectives. British Council. https://doi.org/10.57884/Z34F-0732 Editorial Board: Aremu Anuolowapo, Monica Bello, Khaldoun Hijazin, Yasuaki Kakehi, José Carlos Mariátegui, Jahnavi Phalkey, Tonya Nelson, Clare Reddington, Kay Watson.Contributors: Brian Afande, Harshit Agrawal, Laura Aguiar, Nora Al-Badri, Morehshin Allahyari, Rebecca Allen, Luis Álvarez-Gaumé, Xu Bing, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Mercedes Bunz, CATPC, Sougwen Chung, Paolo Cirio, Juan Cortés, Yinka Danmole, LAS Art Foundation, Linda Dounia Rebeiz, Mat Dryhurst, Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Sarah Ellis, Tanveer Hasan, Libby Heaney, Laura Herman, Holly Herndon, Eva Jäger, Murad Khan, Kimchi & Chips, Rob Laidlow, Anna Landre, Iris Long, Tadeo Lopez-Sendon, Erik Lucero, Chao Tayiana Maina, Vukosi Marivate, Marie McPartlin, Piotr Mirowski, Caterina Moruzzi, Greg Mothersdale, Oonagh Murphy, Padmini Ray Murray, Haytham Nawar, Marie Lou Papazian, Pegor Papazian, Rida Qadri, Jasia Reichardt, Freya Salway, Nicola Triscott, Gary Zhexi Zhang.British Council Team: Angelica Burrill, Colette Bailey, Eneni Bambara-Abban, Briony Hanson, Ruchira Das, Hannah Andrews, Harriet Armstrong, Aurora Hawcroft, Ian Thomas, Isaac Allison, James Broadway, Joanne Jolley, Lisa Brook, Lucy Philippson, Ling Mao, Ruth McKenzie, Joel Mills, Yoonjoe Park, Paula Diaz, Alaa Qattam, Roshni Rao, Sissi Olenka Hamann, Martha Woodsaanaoui, Manami Yuasa.Design: Daniela Rivillas Front and back cover images: Libby Heaney, Linda Dounia Rebeiz, Gary Zhexi Zhang and Iris Long’s work in collage by Daniela Rivillas.5Why technology needs artistsForewordIn 1968, the Institute for Contemporary Arts opened Cybernetic Serendipity. Bringing together composers, artists, film makers, engineers, scientists, and academics, the exhibition sparked a dialogue, spanning multiple continents, about the relationship between technology & the arts. It pushed at what is possible when computation and creativity are combined and marked an important moment in a long history of the UK engaging in international experimentation and creation with advanced technologies.It’s curator, Jasia Reichardt, has offered the opening to this collection; an archival description of lectures from 1976, discussing the close relationship between scientific and technological advancement and artistic expression. Reichardt’s words, originally written on an Adler typewriter, still ring true today. They resonate through the 40 essays in this collection. In Berlin, Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst are piloting new ways to protect artists’ intellectual proper