Digi'n'Dada - or what never was and always is

The question of sense and nonsense in art is as old as art itself. What should our attitude towards art be like today?

In a time of information overload and fast-moving superficiality, meaningful topics should be reflected in art.

Being instead of seeming.

Is strong content still in demand in a world that takes itself less and less seriously?

Gaga TV is booming - the hordes of self-proclaimed comedians are flooding the commercial channels. Since we apparently have nothing left to laugh about, we are torn apart at the sight of the first dachshund-loving janitor we see. Documentary soaps are turning people with no intellectual skills into folk heroes. News programs are increasingly becoming a kind of limbo of existence.

'I know that I know nothing' becomes 'we talk because we have nothing to say'. 'Less is more' becomes 'less quality brings more profit'.

We are drowning in media-generated 'discontent' (instead of content) and banal 'uninformation' (instead of information). No Whatsapp post gives us absolution. No cell phone melody awakens us from our nightmare everyday life. High-tech overkill. Virtual apocalypse on full bandwidth. Our fiber optic nervous system is on the verge of collapsing from total sensory overload.

How can images compete with images? How can art create a positive counter-utopia?

The world is becoming more DIGItal and is totally DADA.