How Art Can Help Digital Find Its Soul

Art helps us make sense of the world around us. Four themes from classical art link the historical, analog world to the digital world of today.

Art is like a mirror: It can reflect something in ourselves that is inaccessible, stimulate the imagination, and unlock forgotten or repressed desires and emotions.

Art helps us make sense of the world around us. The practice of making art is one of selection, of filtering out the irrelevant to expose the significant. And, by doing so, we reveal the patterns and rules that govern nature, empowering us to navigate the man-made world and master it.

To help expose this significance, we identified a handful of themes in classical art that link the historical, analog world to the world of today: existential evidence, kinesis (movement), spatial awareness, and open vs. closed forms. From digital identity to the architectural structure of the internet, let’s examine together the themes that have fascinated artists and digital scribes alike.

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