The purpose of my research is to examine the presumed distinction between Art and Nature within a critical analysis of the so called crisis of foundations. I.e., the crisis of the foundationlist modern project, the post- modern rejection of metaphysics in general and of the idea of a foundation in particular, its relationships with the ruptures imposed by the new technologies and its consequences on the perception of the world and of humanity. Art and Nature do not constitute fundamentally different domains, or yet, there is no ontological heterogeneity between that which is self-made (Nature) and that which is manufactured (Art). In effect, the great difficulty in precisely determining and defining the reality referred to by the term nature has led to the acknowledgement of the fact that the efficacy of the idea of nature is proportional to its imprecision. The lifting up of the Taboo of the Natural, that is, the suspension in the belief that nothing which is technically manufactured can be put on a par to the essence of nature`s doings, was an invitation to a re-assessment of the frontiers between natural and artificial. From calculus to algorithms, and from these to information technology and biotechnology, metaphors transform themselves into machines and tools, and machines into powerful metaphors whose heuristic value lies, in last instance, in the indiscernibility between nature and culture. Contemporary technology reveals and makes reality available as an artifact - i.e. art and fact. Ars gratia artis.