RSS FeedThis is a paper I wrote for my theory class which explores the possibility for digital artists to work for social change through art that uses new communicative possibilities afforded by new technologies.
Networking Aesthetics
As a result of the computer revolution, the world is witnessing an unprecedented shift in modes of social, economic and cultural production. The rise of informational networks as social and economic forms simultaneously contain new possibilities for a democratic society and new threats to individual liberty. Within these networks lie new possibilities for resistance against power, the creation of new forms of subjectivity, collaborations and democracy. But they also contain new forms of disciplinary power, subjugation, exploitation and oppression. Art practitioners working within the realm of digital media must develop a new critical framework for understanding how their work can either work for a liberatory future or merely reinscribe forms of oppression that permeates these networks.
