EXCAVATING THE FUTURE:
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Ryszard W. Kluszczynski
Art historian and Curator
Professor of University of Lodz
Head of Electronic Media Dept.
Professor of Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz and Poznan
In 1990-2001 Chief Curator of Film, Video and Multimedia Art in the Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw

  



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The Myth of Liberation, Illusion of Control Zikmund Bauman and Miroslaw Rogala
 Cyberspace is very often presented as a place of freedom. Freedom is considered as a natural quality of the Net and cyberspace. The only thing to be done is to defend freedom, to protect this natural state of cyberspace. Such an opinion is contradicted with another concept saying that wherever and whenever we have to do with plurality of groups, interests and policies, we also face the struggle for power and all consequences of it. According to this opinion there is no freedom on the Net but only wars. Virtual communities inherited from the real ones the same conditions of living and the same fear - of the Strangers and of the disorder they provide. Reflection on the status of the Stranger and on relationships between different communities is an important part of the sociological works of Zygmunt Bauman. This is a proper context to deconstruct the idea of freedom on the Net. Does it mean however that there is nothing but control and domination/subordination games there? It is hard to maintain such as idea either. The interactive multimedia installations of Miroslaw Rogala deconstruct the concept of control. The control appears as illusory as freedom. The important question is what is the territory between mythical freedom and illusory control?