CYNETART 09:: Christoph Wachter, Mathias Jud :: New Nations

Interview with internet artists and activists Christoph Wachter and Mathias Jud taking about their new work
New Nations presented at CYNETART09 withing the context of the VIPA Congress

Credits
Förderpreis der Kunstministerin;
Eidgenössisches Departement des Innern EDI, Bundesamt für Kultur BAK

The world wide web appears as an open space. But there are state authorities acting behind the globalisation: an American network (.gov .mil .com) has been extended by national domains (.de .fr .ch). This division of the digital data network marginalises humans, who are oppressed in terms of eviction and censorship. Control by the established nations makes it impossible for unrecognised communities to articulate, legitimise and finally also to legalise themselves. In refugee countries and commercialized communication systems they will remain an off-line issue or sub-culture. New Nations add a new dimensions to the existing internet by providing Tibetans, Kurds, Tamils, Uigurs, Sahrauis etc with their own internet domain. This community project facilitates a new culture of open and global communication.