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A Faustian Art Technology.

XV A Faustian Art Technology.(35) Like Faust, a Faustian Technology is compromised with Mephistopheles but is wondering all the time about God. This technology has a kind of unexpected brutality, an overwhelming power bringing humanity to the limitlessness of artificial intelligence, and in promising absolute control over reality, it could face the possibility of horror for the evil for which it could be used.(36) In manipulating Art Technology, we have to be Post-Historical(37), responsible not only for the technique but also for the function and the meaning of what our purpose is in civilization...If for instance, it is all about a Faustian grandeur in the Eternal Cosmos making that the essence of our pride; well... a New Millennium Art must express without any doubt its concern about our new human stature!. So in regarding that condition, ART could recover its voice as one of the unparalleled expressions of myth!.(38) Even though we can not deny the great amount of beauty, mystery, enchantment and power of those art pieces from the Historical Age of Painting done with the simplest metatechnologies of a cotton canvas and a brush, we have to remember that we can not mistakenly judge the purpose of making art when confusing the essence of its subject, which independent from any form or technology, it can not be alienated from its meaning which is HOW WE SEE REALITY, HOW REALITY IS ITSELF AN ENTITY AUTONOMOUS FROM US, and HOW WE ARE A GROWING CONSCIOUSNESS ON IT! Curiously the American Psychologist Rollo May says in his book "The Cry for Myth" that "disease is the process by which the creative person shifts forms, he or she creates from "FORMLESSNESS to a new form", and that "the trouble is that our culture is in the midst of this process and has not yet found its New Renaissance". Why do we not use the marvels of consciouss metatechnology, old and new, to reach the present and the future with the dignity and beauty of our own fulfillment of form instead?. Otherwise we could risk being the Giants of Chaos: Decadence, Misery and Violence, Pessimism and Darkness for eternity... Well thought it is not shifting "from formlessness "to the enchantment of new technologies, but HOW we could decode the common ugliness, vulgarity, kitsch and coldness of this TRANSITION PERIOD (painful and hopeful Fin de Siecle) if not looking back carefully to the best of the best of our universal traditions, and forward with the visions of Complexity Consciousness as well with the intuitions of the natural philosophy of our times!. New Art is not about forgetting..! New Art is about regarding-connecting-conveying the Historical-Hysterical being with our Post-Historical complex-elemental self!. And that could be of one the venues to reach a New Renaissance!.