simply.ost

[claudia westermann]

// I wish to write about you




LEONARDO JOURNAL
________________________________________________________________

LEONARDO, VOL. 38, NO. 5 (OCTOBER 2005) -
TABLE OF CONTENTS AND SELECTED ABSTRACTS

----


THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE

LIBERATION OR CONTROL: DISOBEDIENT CONNECTIONS IN CONTEMPORARY WORKS

by Bojana Kunst

The concept of connection has assumed a very ambivalent status today. 
Being connected exposes the liberating potential of connected public 
participation, which has changed our understanding of political and 
intimate life. At the same time there is also a strong fear at work 
that this very potential could result in a more rigid form of 
contemporary life. Connection, as understood in this article, is 
something procedural that can at the same time be disobedient to its 
own procedure. This disobedience can be concretely observed in 
certain contemporary artistic works, for example in the project 
*wPack* from Intima Virtual Base.