UNPLUGGED. Art as the Scene of Global Conflicts

In the context of a press conference (April 17th, 2002) the directors of Ars Electronica, Gerfried Stocker (Ars Electronica Center) and Dr. Christine Schöpf (ORF Upper Austrian Regional Studio) present UNPLUGGED as the general theme of Ars Electronica 2002.

UNPLUGGED ... means the severed thread, fractured lines of development that had been thought to move only higher and higher, the abyss alongside the routes traveled by the caravans of progress ...

Ars Electronica 2002 focuses on the blind spots of globalization, those barriers of a mental and geographic nature that make getting connected to and taking part in this process of global networking ('the Net') and the cultural and social models it conveys impossible, illicit or even unwelcome. UNPLUGGED is indicative of how the issue of the political element in art has returned with a vengeance to the agenda of intellectual discourse and artistic practice and turns its attention to the positions of a young generation of media artists.

Press Conference
Wednesday, April 17th, 2002, 10:30 a.m., Ars Electronica Center – Sky Medialoft





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Global Conflicts and 6 billion Idiots (TS / 2002/5/18 2:44:35 AM)