‘Shifting roles of technology’

“Thin Ice,’’ by Joseph Smolinski, at Real Art Ways, Hartford, Conn., through April 23.

His Web site says that Mr. Smolinski is a multidisciplinary artist and educator who lives and works in New Haven. “His practice questions the shifting roles of technology within communication networks, energy and oil companies, and the industrial agricultural infrastructure, which indelibly shape the so-called natural environment.’’