In this paper, we propose a reflection on technology and the technological in the field of the visual arts, drawing on the philosophy of technology and media theory, which are based on a philosophy of nature, not exclusively on a philosophy of information. The distinctive feature of these contributions is that they foreground materiality, not only the semantic aspects of arbitrary artificial objects and processes, which stems, among other things, from the tendency to break with the so-called hylomorphic model of understanding the relationship between form and matter/substance. On this basis, the paper proposes an expanded and materialist understanding of technology, which is one possible starting point for considering artistic formative and formulation processes as inherently technological. In the second half of the paper, further recognising recent neomaterialistic contributions in the field of aesthetics and art theory, we focus on the analysis of selected artworks that affirm the materiality of matter/substance and that derive from an expanded notion of technology, and therefore also include, directly or indirectly, considerations of ecology, i.e. the relations and models of relationality between things, including the relations between human and non-human actors.
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