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CULTURAL PRACTICE AND WAR

the summer of 1999
an online public forum presented by the X Art Foundation and VOTI

Artists, critics, curators, and other cultural producers are today
struggling with the terms of their own practice, in a global context of
crisis when much of their work seems insignificant. How to navigate this
relation between aesthetic and political intervention is a nagging
question, made all the more acute during times of war. What are the
terms of our involvement–do we fight at the frontlines, do we devote
ourselves to humanitarian efforts, or do we rather make strong
interventions in the realm of symbolic production? Because clearly we
are faced with wars of images, of communications networks and propaganda
machines. Where are we needed most? Have we developed useful tools
with which to decode images, that can have practical consequences in a
situation where television continually overwrites reality?

The <voti><blast> forum will address these issues in the context of a
3-month online public forum, beginning today and ending September 1,
1999. We invite you to join us.

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Presented by the X Art Foundation and VOTI as part of the Blast 7
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