A product of human progress, technology has been part of human development since the beginning of civilization. It is also integral in art since the beginning as humans learned to use tools made from stone, wood and bone, the start of technology, in creative expression and art-making. As technology evolves, so does art, helping shape it and even give birth to forms, allowing for larger and freer manifestation of creativity.
In recent times, as technology became more advanced with the emergence of computers, digital technology and artificial intelligence, questions about it became a itself a subject of art, admonishing us with its dangers. Faculty members and students of architecture, fashion design and film of the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde reflected on the question of how modern technologies have shaped their fields of art, artmaking, design and creative process both in positive and negative ways, and shared their insights. Gabriel Luis Jesus ‘Gab’ N.
Brioso Architect and part-time faculty member, BS in Architecture Program “Questions and conversations that center around the amalgamation between technology and architecture are perceived a bit differently locally. Architecture being a discipline that heavily relies on tangible medium to express its craft has a bit of a parasitic relationship with technology. For the longest time, technology’s influence on the discipline has existed within the lens of it being a tool — a tool for visualization, a tool for c.
