I HAD a student on my Art and Emerging Technologies course who was interested in X-rays; he wanted to dance with a real-time moving image of his skeleton. His approach was to use the internet to familiarise himself with the literature and connect with a researcher in the field. Both the course and his research relied completely on the web and the mutual confidence generated by a shared digital culture.
So how did we get to this point – when an 18-year-old’s first instinct is to explore the world in digital terms? Digitisation has changed how we store, access and…
