New Media Art at he Intersection between Technology and Politics and he Social Conditions

Abstract

This article, by problematising the relationship between technology, art and the social conditions, aims to examine the ways through which new artistic positions are emerging within digital capitalist conditions. The postfordist society of control works with digital technologies and this has produced mechanisms of bio-power which are articulated around the code. Under the conditions of digital culture in which social relations are organised around the network structure, an examination of the manifestations of the connection between mode of production and art through the digital is important for understanding the new modes of agency. This study, by focusing on the artistic modes of relating with technology that deviate from the norm of the system, aims to scrutinize how the relation between aesthetics and politics is articulated under digital conditions. This also amounts to an understanding of the new practices of resistance emerging under the new social conditions.