This article draws on the work of diverse scholars to explore the politico-theoretical implications of technology, both as an artifact and as a modality, in contemporary art. Understanding art, technology, culture, and politics as being reciprocally generative of one another, the presentation explores a critical framework through which we may view artworks in general as (de)mobilizing various and particular technological paradigms, allowing us to view the embedded and invisible assumptions of a work in the context of its cultural ramifications.