The Body and Technology.(Brief Article) From: Art Journal | Date: March 22, 2001| Author: Jones, Amelia | COPYRIGHT 2001 College Art Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Whether overtly or not, all visual culture plumbs the complex and profound intersections among visuality, embodiment, and the logics of mechanical, industrial, or cybernetic systems. By making and interpreting visual culture, visual theorists (artists, art critics, and art historians) explore aspects of the human body/mind complex as a "complicated machine" capable of extension into the world through vision (per Julien Offray de la Mettrie in his 1748 book L'homme machine).

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