ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the ontological and teleological overlap between art and technology. Theories of technology will be reviewed alongside ontological and teleological theories of art. This chapter addresses digital art and the ways in which the resulting melding of technology and art changes the meaning and purpose of each of these phenomena and the embodiment of both. In doing so, I provide an overview of ideas and commentary on these topics in an effort to familiarize the reader with some of the current and historical conceptualizations of these phenomena and their overlap. Here, art is explored as the purified essence of transforming thought or existence into matter or action, the essence of the will-to-be; technology as the force, the action, the being-in-the-world-ness of this will-to-be. In what follows, it should become clear how it is just such a definition can be asserted.
