Butterfly effects: the fusion of art, technology, design and the natural world

Over the past few decades, technology has opened up the visual arts to all sorts of possibilities for creating immersive spectacles that go some way to simulating out-of-body experiences. It can be sublime when done well, but lose that crucial human factor — the intangible sense that somehow, flesh and blood and all their myriad failings have had a hand in the process — and you end up with something po-faced and curiously uninvolving. To justify its existence, this latter category is almost always accompanied by reams of impenetrable artspeak…

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Butterfly effects: the fusion of art, technology, design and the natural world