ART IN AN ELECTRONIC AGE

During the past 40 years emphasis in the discussion about the relation ship of art and science has changed. The universal view available to L ancelot Law Whyte, to Jacob Bronowski and to Arthur Koestler appears t oo general to a late twentieth century world that is obsessed with min utiae. Science and art have each become so drawn into their own comple xities that the possibility of a common theory to bridge the gulf seem s increasingly remote. We continue to circumnavigate the spaces betwee n. The initiative for a meaningful relationship between the two cultur es may in the end come from neither science nor art, but from the ubiq uitous presence, common to both worlds, of technology.