The house was packed. The room smelled of linseed oil tinged with hostility. W ith some anticipation the panel began. Surely there was enough fuel to generate much discussion. To attribute this sort of theological and anthropomorphic status to the computer was impossible.
Computers have no agency.
They can neither save nor corrupt. I talked briefly about the issue of social anxiety surrounding the role of computers in almost every aspect of our lives and that there just had to be a way to distinguish between art and industry, creativity and power, that the concerns about technology were well grounded, but retreat or outright rejection wasn't the best course. Perhaps it would be fair to say a bit about the sense of anxiety that was revealed. Painting is about guts. It was obvious that the issues of computers in the arts continues to have deeply troubling consequences.