The Art of Open Systems: Affective Turbulence... and how it all turned out to be completely different ...

Presentation of V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam

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Lecturer:
Cameraman:
Category:
EVENT
Type:
presentation
Creation Date:
2004-10-22
Language:
English
Description:
If we consider that the much of the 20th century was a warm-up or technolgical training ground for the utopian wonders of the 21st century - seamless harmony and unambiguous equivalence between the human and the machine - then the dawn of this new century has introduced itself as being exactly the opposite. The hopes placed into creating the mechanisms of desire which the marriage of technology and ‘being’ implied - open global systems of borderless economies, infinite mobility, simultaneous communication and the immeasurable public domain of the internet - have, through their own rhetoric of limitless success, proved to be fallible structures stretched beyond the tenure of their intended functions. (...)

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Original Title (English):
A nyitott rendszerek művészete: kavargó érzelmek... és miért van mégis minden másként ...
Original Subtitle:
Bemutatkozik a V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam
Location:
C3, Auditórium / Auditory
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