“Unless the world is substantially altered for the worst, the logical outcome of technology's influence on art before the end of this century should be a series of art forms that manifest true intelligence, but perhaps more meaningfully, with a capacity for reciprocal relationships with human beings.”

— Jack Burnham

Cited in: Robert Horvitz, 'a node for jack burnham' https://horvitz.multiplace.org/burnham/homepage.html.
Beyond Modern Sculpture, 1968

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