KATALOG: OUT OF THE BOX. The Midlife Crisis of the Digital Revolution

Being a festival for art, technology, and society means using the methods of art and the sensorium of artists to observe and analyze possible future transformations as well as those currently happening, and to come to conclusions about their cultural and social dimensions and their consequences. The time-honored principle of artistic thought and action “making the invisible visible,” the curiosity to look at what’s behind the scenes and the impulse to make something better, dissatisfaction with simple answers, skepticism toward default solutions, an unflagging creativity in the search for new ways and means — all these are factors, originating in the artistic ecosystem, that are perfectly suited to help formulate the enlightened, critical, and qualified perspectives that we urgently need on our path into the future. A path that must take into account the problems of the present no less than it needs visions of a better future.

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