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SYNOPSIS
Today's art is, tragically enough, dependent on capitalistic world
power: Artistic expression has lost its anthropological meaning, the
creative identity of l'homme-artiste is manipulated by art market's
corrupt production systems and marketing strategies. Profit is made
by utilising established art values, though generating nothing but
art works attacking the dignity of their creator, the artist her/
himself.
Since electronic equipment is necessary to survive in contemporary civilisation, it is used by artists, too. Yet multimedia artists ignore scientific knowledge as technology, semantics and philosophy of the new media. What is sold then as art is often just a visual effect resulting from routine occupation with electronic means. Art critics regard this kind of art as a strategy of the world wide plutocratic oligarchy whose power penetrates modern high art education as well.
Yet there is no reason for despair. Resistance against an art being reduced to mercantile interests and to the will of the wealth and the power is creating a new orientation, recognising art as being difficulty in its very essence. Space, formerly banalised, will become a metaphor of art work itself; an art which collaborates to create a fundamental change of all present human societies, without exception.
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