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Why are techies so averse to funding the arts?
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this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2023
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Technology these days tends all to have the same flavour, because the tech bros behind it tend unreflectively to share the same kind of outlook on the world. Sometimes engineers can be overly confident that they are dealing with the most important things, but the unexamined outlooks and philosophies by which they live end up shaping our world through the technologies they implement.
As someone working in tech who studied arts and continues to be active in the arts, the experiences in life that have transformed how I perceive and understand the world have never come from technology, but often from arts. Arts can change your perceptions, can open you up to ways of perceiving that you didn't know were there, and can reveal that your assumptions about the world were just assumptions.
That's not to say that technology can't be innovative and world-changing. A number of technologies around today have the potential to transform society, but the ways in which they can transform it will be dictated not just by the technologies but by the people who realize them. I don't think it has always been the case that technologists are uninterested in the arts, but I suspect it's no coincidence that today's crop of tech leaders are both uninterested in the arts and conspicuously blinkered in their vision.
A lot of what you mention is pretty accurate. Take the internet and websites. I made a website a year ago for my portfolio.
It doesn't have a landing page, its purposely difficult to navigate and I used zero seo when designing it. I showed it to the CTO at the company I worked at and he thought it was great, but every other person at the company was saying the website is shit, I dont know how to use it.
Its literally just a menu, which has clickable menu links at the bottom in case you're really that dim. But because it involves hunting and clicking instead of just scrolling downwards mindlessly its "wrong." These same people see nothing wrong with ad copy laden seo articles.
I haven't changed my website and instead moved from working in tech to working in the arts full time now. I'm sorry, but IT people mostly fucking suck and they're just never going to appreciate anything that doesn't fit their parameters of tolerance.