Piemonte Italia

Press Play: l'arte e i mezzi d'informazione

New communication models lead us to adapt to a society of "here and now", where finding information in real time is more a value than a need. All you need is a computer, a mobile phone or handheld device to access information that appears increasingly at hand, or mouse, and it seems that anyone can, through the multimedia encyclopedias and blogs, improvise themselves organizer and producer of multimedia content, experiencing, at times, without any expertise, the participatory and uncontrolled democracy of the Web. Based on these considerations, sixteen artists including Bani Abidi, Black Audio Film Collective and Thomas Demand, address media channels with a critical approach and make contradictions and corrupt mechanisms emerge.