Apropos “because they could” (Sony), the recently unveiled plan for a public art centrepiece for the 2012 London Olympic Park (The Orbit) has all the hallmarks of the technology of the day (computer software, CAD). The Orbit, a 100 metre tall steel structure, designed by Anish Kapoor, commissioned by the London mayor Boris Johnson, and largely financed by the steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal, is both an ideological and a literal demonstration (“because we can”) of how art, politics and money come together. Now, technology feeding a need, or desire (visceral need) fed by technology?
BJ
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