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05/05/2004 Archived Entry: "Romancing the Black Box"

Ian White asks "whether our idées fixes about the new media genre – its levels of ludic subversion, its critique of the institution of Art, its interactive nature – aren’t misnomers in the face of the realities of the white cube." Does contemporary art's persistent Romantic fixation fully address the potentials of new media, or is it perhaps myopically focused on an easy contrast between natural and artificial space?

Read Romancing the Black Box by Ian White (metamute 15.10.03)