Mapping the Technological Art between Industrial Memory, Infrastructural Innovations, Emerging Artistic Practices, and Techno-Ecologies

Tehnoarte operates as an academic-curatorial platform that articulates five axes, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, research-based artistic production, and international dialogue at the intersection of art, technology, and ecology.

This axis examines how nineteenth-century industrial and infrastructural innovations contributed to the formation of a local technological consciousness. Electricity, telecommunications, the press, and early cinematography are addressed not merely as technical achievements, but as cultural agents that reshaped perception, temporality, and urban experience. Industrial memory is understood as an active layer that continues to inform contemporary artistic practices and provides a critical framework for engaging with technology today.

This axis explores the impact of mediating technologies on artistic language, from the introduction of photography to analog video, electronic systems, and digital media. Technology is approached as an epistemic device capable of reconfiguring the relationship between image, time, and reality. Within this framework, a local tradition of visual experimentation emerges, in which technical instruments function as tools for critical reflection on representation and perception.

This axis traces the development of a local culture of collaboration between art and engineering, crystallized most clearly through intermedia practices and transdisciplinary research in the second half of the twentieth century. Technological consciousness manifests here in a bidirectional manner: engineers explore the aesthetic potential of systems and algorithms, while artists adopt technology as a method of artistic research and cultural critique. Collaboration is understood not merely as a working model, but as a strategy for knowledge production.

This axis focuses on contemporary practices of digital art, programmable art, interactive installations, XR environments, and networked performances developed in direct relation to urban space. Technological infrastructure—both physical and invisible—is reconfigured as an artistic interface, while the city itself is approached as a site of experimentation and a cultural laboratory. Contemporary technological consciousness implies a critical reflection on the social, ecological, and cultural implications of technology, as well as on the role of art within these dynamics.

This axis introduces a critical ecological perspective on technological consciousness, addressing the entanglement of technological systems with environmental, social, and bodily ecologies. Techno-ecologies are understood as hybrid assemblages in which digital technologies, infrastructures, natural systems, and human bodies coexist and co-evolve. Artistic practices operating within this axis investigate energy flows, material cycles, data ecologies, and sensor-based environments, foregrounding questions of sustainability, care, and responsibility.

Rather than framing technology as immaterial or dematerialized, this axis emphasizes its ecological footprint, material dependencies, and ethical implications. Technological consciousness is thus redefined as a situated and relational awareness—one that acknowledges the impact of technological processes on fragile ecosystems and seeks to translate ecological complexity into embodied, participatory, and sensorial artistic experiences.

technological consciousness, art and technology, industrial memory, urban infrastructure, technological mediation, technologies of perception, transdisciplinarity, art–engineering collaboration, digital art, programmable art, intermedia practices, interactive installations, XR environments, art and urban space, infrastructure as interface, post-industrial heritage, environmental awareness,
sustainability and artistic practice, emerging artistic practices

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