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Phenomenological Approach to Cyberarts

Today we are witnessing a great transformation in the contemporary arts, perhaps as significant and profound as the transformation from the pre-modern art to the modern art. The diversification and plurality of art forms at the end of the millennium has undoubtedly presented a problem for philosophies of art, cultural studies, and aesthetics. When most of the recent works of art are placed in a social context we find that the vast majority are no longer works in the mode of stable (material) artifacts; they come to us in the form of concepts, web projects, computer-mediated situations, and virtual articulations. The works of art coming into the foreground today are often cyberworks of art which appear at the intersection of art-as-we-know-it, techno-science, state-of-the-art technology, new media, computer mediated communications, design, new politics, cyberpop and techno-religions.