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Eigenwelt: Future of “the tribe that worshipped electricity”

“Epitaph: Do I believe that video meant anything significant? Was it a legitimate art movement? Will it be remembered? I suppose if art in the future continues to be made electronically or becomes even more dependent on technology, then the history of this movement shall be secure. If, on the other hand, technology should be rejected in the art making of the near or distant future, the efforts of this tribe, ‘the tribe that worshipped electricity,’ (as Jonas Mekas put it), will certainly lapse into obscurity.”

Woody Vašulka, “Curatorial Statement,” in Eigenwelt der Apparate-Welt/Pioneers of Electronic Art, Steina Vašulka & Woody Vašulka, curators, Ars Electronica, Linz (1992); link: https://vasulka.org/Kitchen/PDF_Eigenwelt/pdf/011-013.pdf.