On Thursday, October 4th John and I went to the opening celebration of the Cornell Art Museum’s latest exhibition, Tech Effect.  The promo for the exhibit says

ABOUT TECH EFFECT From Brian Dettmer’s sculptures composed of melted-down cassette tapes to Antoine Geiger’s manipulated photographs of smartphone users being literally sucked into their devices, the technology of yesterday, today and tomorrow continues to inspire artists worldwide. “Tech Effect,” running Oct. 5 2018-Feb. 17, 2019 at the Cornell Art Museum, surveys 22 artists reflecting on the way technology impacts our lives and their art, or vice versa.

I thought it was an interesting exhibit and it certainly attracted a young tech savvy crowd.  I describe myself as an Artist/Scientist and certainly technology has been a main theme in my working career.  Generally I find artists the least tech savvy of the general population.  And while this was evident in this exhibit to some extent and some of the artwork was very pedestrian, there were also some very clever ideas of fusion of art & technology.    I particularly enjoyed the digital prints of fractals and photography and the 3d printing of sculptures that were later fired in  kiln.  This is my opinion is a beautiful fusion of art and science.  Since art always reflects society, there was a lot of art that was social commentary, like to effect of smartphones on ones focus of attention.  I was pleased to attend and plan to stop by again to take a closer look.