well, i'll weigh in on this one briefly for starters. tech=tyrant is a very blunt view. serra sees technology as a verb, and a very selfish and direct verb at that. that may be a part of why digi or tech art is so crushingly literal. technology, in the case of digi art we're describing, is the tool that carries the 'meaning' of the work [whether it's narrative or otherwise]. mostly, digi work suffers from lack of imagination or literality in that 'meaning'. Serra is saying that art is not specific to some way or thing...

i'm not about to give away any secrets here... but i'd say that the work that satisfies me the most turns technological machines on themselves in a creative way [they are designed to maintain an equilibrium of sorts] and also, the gestures they make, while maybe aggressive, are never mean or literal. the work thereby avoids a simple reading.

wphew that was confusing wasn't it? like i said, no secrets.