ABSTRACT
The arts and technology are both finding new expression in the city. Today's urban environment simultaneously participates in discussions of modernism and modernity, and so the expression of the technological city participates in many debates. In recent times the digital arts have embraced technology as a catalyst of expression with a greater intensity than ever before. Access to technology is being played out between advocates of open source and tiered access to the internet, the latter supported by commercial interests, is debated. In the case of photography Abigail Solomon-Godeau states that a source of documentary photography's failure is its self-referential tautological nature. Shimon Attie's project 'Writing on the Wall' used projected images of World War II Jewish life on the same sites where they were originally made. Phillip K. Dick was less of a science fiction writer and, as he would say himself, more of a 'pre-cog'.
