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SAFER REALITY
Phil E. Haindl (AT)
Prix Ars Electronica 1999 Distinction "Cybergeneration u19 - freestyle computing"
This Web project represents an homage to the perception of reality. It raises the question of the extent, to which we all depend on empirically developed reality or what the opportunities and chances are that stubborn and naive perception offers us ... Plato's Allegory of the Cave served as a model for me, because I find it interesting in several respects. Appropriate patterns of behavior are recommended to us human beings through education, society and conscience, which most of our naive fellow human beings gratefully accept. This ultimately led me to the question of what would happen if a person could express opinions and questions free from all considerations, conventions and adaptations...
Source: Phil E. Haindl (AT)
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