The conference Artmedia VIII bases its reflection on the presupposition that technological communication at a distance functions as a driving force in transformations to our world. This brings us to reflect, in particular, on the questions of anthropo-philosophy and aesthetics raised by the current situation. It also involves pondering the implications of this for the economy and even the organization of culture.
At the beginning of the 1980s, "The aesthetics of communication" having sensed the direction of this current change, and its present developments, appears as one of the first attempts aiming to provoke awareness of what was happening in order to observe all the consequences, both aesthetic and artistic.
The present-day existence of networks and the very diversified phenomenology of "aesthetic" products which can be found there, raises again, although according to different modalities, all the questions already posed by the "aesthetics of communication", while generating new experimentation one can still recognize as related to these problematics.
The conference proposes to "thematize" this situation, with the participation and testimony of a great many "communications artists", both old-timers and newcomers, and the contribution of theoreticians and specialists engaged, in one way or another, in reflecting on, organizing and spreading culture.