Digital Dragons of the North: On Digital Dynamics and New Nature in Nordic Aesthetics
by Stahl Stenslie
Stenslie characterizes in this chapter a dynamic of technological optimism in terms of a visionary and passionate relationship with new technologies, which he identifies in highly technologically developed Nordic societies and also in artists’ use of advanced technology in their practices today – mainly in regards to the Norwegian context. This dynamic influences artistic methodologies today of applying scientific technologies combined with social networking tools and expressions of political activism to examine the world – and nature – as an experimental and living laboratory.