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Because the whole world is out to get my generally uninformed and badly thought out opinion, Melissa in my class asked during her tutorial on Billy Kluver:
In reference to the Pavilion, Klüver states that “the ability of the contemporary artist to participate in a project of this scale is an outstanding achievement and radically expands the social possibilities of art.” (quoted in Noah Wardrip-Fruin, p. 226)
Q: How does the new media artist expand the social possibilities of art and science?

The way I see it, New media art is can be thought of as anything created by any person through a means that isn't thought of as traditional art. That is, not painting or sculpture or anything like that unless it has a neat video attachment or a speaker behind it. Generally, everything else falls under the category of Technology, which is a science in itself. So by using this argument, obviously the answer comes down to something close to New media artists in themselves being kind of like scientists, by creating new technologies (maybe without much purpose other than being flashy, but that's not the point) or finding new ways of using old technologies. By working together with other scientists, or in Kluver's case engineers, everyone involved can help expand the minds of everyone else who experiences these artworks and may even help bring around new and useful purposes for technology and science.

I hope that makes sense. I can't seem to tell whether it's convoluted or whether I just rambled on so that it just looks like I can form well rounded arguments.