Sunday, May 27, 2007

NET.ART HAS UNLIMITED APPLICATIONS AS A TOOL OF SOCIO-POLITICAL CRITIQUE


"In cyberspace individuals would soar through information unencumbered by physical obstruction and governmental control, and new types of communities would emerge, emancipated from the shackles of ethnicity, gender and class" (Bookchin, 2006: 69).

Net.art is inhibited by the architectural rules of cyberspace, but the scope it gives online socio-political activists to resist myriad threats to the freedom of information and navigation on the net and in the non-virtual world is immense. The aesthetic of failure employed by Jodi is now compromised, net.art needs to overcome the aforementioned limitations by taking the step and confronting the objects of its critique, after all isn't "...code is the first type of language that does what it says...a type of machine for converting meaning into action" (Wands, 2006:168)