Until the eighteenth century, techne – a term with its roots in antiquity – denoted practices of artistic making and doing; during the eighteenth century, this understanding underwent a change. Fields of knowledge became increasingly varied and as art was increasingly demarcated as an independent functional system with its own rules and clearly distinguishable from other systems, the traditional coupling of art and craft inherent in the techne concept was reconsidered and revised. At the same time, new techniques created pressure to reassess the connections between art and technology. This conference addresses these constellations and tensions from an interdisciplinary perspective, examining both the techniques of manual and machine work as well as examples of ‘everyday techniques’ in the eighteenth century – those of painting, reading, writing, piano playing, etc. A particular focus will be placed on historical techniques of collecting on the one hand and, on the other, on the technical possibilities for researching the eighteenth century, thereby establishing an intersection with the Digital Humanities