Article: "tech wreck". (Voiceover).(another look at new media)

To what extent has the "tech wreck" and following scandals affected our understanding of new media? Critical new media practices have been slow to respond to both the rise and fall of dot-com mania: the world of IT firms and their volatile valuations on the world's stock markets seemed light years away from the new media arts galaxy. The speculative heydays of new media culture were the early to midnineties, before the rise of the World Wide Web. Theorists and artists jumped with great anticipation on the not yet existing and inaccessible technologies such as virtual reality; cyberspace generated a rich collection of mythologies; issues of embodiment and identity were ...

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