The straightforward act of taking extraordinary contemporary debris and doing something extraordinary with it provides a point of access into even the most difficult work. And some of the work can be seen as difficult - and might appropriately be described in words entirely opaque to viewers unfamiliar with such arcane terminology. And yet the public's response and media reactions to this, RTI's first show, show are proving to be overwhelmingly positive. Clearly something has changed. In fact, a lot of things have changed.
Computers are expensive.
Computers are of interest to an exclusive techno-elite. To be creative artists require cutting-edge technology. Computers are cheap or free. Everyone's life is affected by information technology. High technology does not mean high creativity.