Cyber In Securities
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2013
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Abstract
CYBER IN SECURITIES is an exhibition that addresses the
growing concern among a cross-generational group of artists
who are deeply enthusiastic about new media, but whose
enthusiasm is complicated by the suspicion that the good will
of their shared digital consciousness is being used against
them. One of the material questions in this exhibition concerns
the feasibility of locating the experience of an artwork when it
is distributed throughout a network. This distributed experience
reflects early visions of the Internet as a “knowledge engine”,
envisioning a free association of ideas linking all of the sciences,
literature, and the arts. Internet pioneers chose a decentralized,
non-hierarchical method of communication that offered
the potential for creating a shared consciousness to solve the
world’s most urgent problems. Meaning in motion became the
law of this democratically built network, just as going viral is its
natural instinct. Conversely, keeping secrets is the antithesis of
a distributed network (as seen in recent media events).