CyberArt – An Eclectic Approach
by Asmita Duranjaya

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2. Definition

Later on with the development of 3D-environments it became possible to create gallery spaces, where the pictures could hang like in galleries in the physical world.

„The consequences of detaching art from the physical object and transferring it as an electronic medium are considerable. The medium no longer transmits reproductions of art, but creates art itself. As the internet now reaches virtually all corners of the world, cyberart works can be experienced just as easily in Africa as in North America...IF computers and network connections exist“ (http://www.nursing-informatics.com/cyberart4.html).

The advantage of the worldwide reception for cyber artwork was also the conclusive consense of a small panel discussion, which I organized in October 2014 in the virtual world of Second Life, inviting two artists, one blogger, one gallerist, one science fiction writer and one art enthusiast to talk about their approach to the term CYBER: Example 12: Panel-discussion in Second Life s. below.

My personal summary (2022) after many years of observation in the field of CyberArt is as follows:
CyberArt and its forms of expression are an imagination or fantasy shaped by an occidental-European view of a future Asia and its role within a worldwide technological development. CyberArt, which thrives very much on the genre of film, expresses two things: First, the age-old fear of reversing one's dominion over technology, of being dominated by it because one has lost control, and second, a surreal, even worship-like fascination with the conceivable possibilities inherent in technologies. CyberArt is a concession by the West to a future dominance of the Far East and an almost desperate attempt to retain interpretive sovereignty by first inventing this genre "cyber" and then endowing it with all the cultural forms of expression that shape cultures. What these forms of expression have in common in the vast majority of cases is a melancholy that feeds on the feeling of the decadence of a cultural epoch.