[The Seven by Nine Squares home page] [YAWN 14] [Art Strike 1990-1993]
"When machine production was new, it gradually created an environment whose content was the old environment of agrarian life and the arts and crafts. This older environment was elevated to an art form by the new mechanical environment. The machine turned Nature into an art form. For the first time men began to regard Nature as a source of esthetic and spiritual values. They began to marvel that earlier ages had been so unaware of the world of Nature as Art. Each new technology creates an environment that is itself regarded as corrupt or degrading. Yet the new one turns its predecessor into an art form."

[Marshall McLuhan