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Art has always been inseparable from its techniques. If the Renaissance brought scientists and artists closer together, the rapid development of the new technologies, particularly that of information processing, inaugurated a new era of close collaboration between the worlds of science and the arts. As an open domain that is constantly being redefined, art has become a fertile field for experiments carried out with instruments whose complexity sharpens artists' imaginations.

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data

Computer science and the new technologies currently offer artists processing interfaces for an astonishing variety of material, ranging from sounds and images to natural phenomena. As a result, data collection, inputting and formatting are regularly used to achieve artistic ends. By going beyond the operation of mere archiving, artists, through their experiments, are inventing data processing systems and giving us a glimpse of the potential of the new memory storage technologies. Their works are also showing us a new way of looking at reality, and revealing the poetic impulse behind the conversion of data.