Creative Conversations Connections: Art, Technology and Society Technology is increasingly behind and in everything, affecting every aspect of human life and leading to a convergence of disciplines with a massive potential impact upon society. Art, science and technology are no longer discrete fields: having always been an inquirer, an explorer, the artist is now also an engineer, experimenting with new technology, inspiring new realities, liaising between the digital and the people. As human interface devices become ever more prevalent, from the touchscreens and body monitors of today to tomorrow’s screenless devices and ever new forms of machine-to-machine communication, what are the moral and ethical questions this raises? How does the loss of boundaries between disciplines, between the expert and the end-user, and between the public and the private sphere impact upon society? How important are cultural, societal and political differences with regard to the role of machines, robots and the digital world in general? Art has the power to give hints to what the future of the human to digital relationship will be. 22 InnovationSpace: The Lab