Preservation or reincarnation? At the crossroads of ethical values

Abstract

[EN] For both the artist and the viewer, or user, digital technology has expanded creative possibilities and horizons, only to narrow them again at the same time. We have blindly embraced digitization, enjoying its promising benefits to which we have willingly adapted. The price we all pay for the tantalizing possibilities of virtual and augmented realities is the loss of immediate sensory contact with reality. It almost seems as if digitization has discredited the analog world as essentially inadequate. However, in an endless evolutionary process, humanity has developed sensory capabilities to interpret the analog world, whereas today we have become essentially dependent on machine processing and interpretation to understand and advance our world through digital data. In our consumer-driven economy of obsolescence, we have been overrun by this development without being able to protect ourselves.