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Out of Control

Out of Control 91 exhibition at Ars Electronica. Ars Electronica '91 picked out the consequences of technological progress, the aspect of the dangers implicated in the increasing mechanization of life and the getting-out-of-control of technological systems as its central themes. During the festival, projects were launched dealing with global and individual disasters, environmental damage and natural disasters as a reaction to these developments.

"Out of Control" was not an aesthetically "beautiful" festival, but aggressive, provocative, critical, disturbing. http://www.aec.at/archiv_project_en.php?id=8894

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"Out of Control." Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2011. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/out-control.

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Out of Control 91 was an exhibition at Ars Electronica during Ars Electronica '91; the festival emphasized consequences of technological progress and the dangers associated with increasing mechanization of life and the loss of control of technological systems. During the festival projects were launched addressing global and individual disasters, environmental damage and natural disasters as reactions to these developments; the Out of Control exhibition was described as not aesthetically "beautiful" but aggressive, provocative, critical and disturbing.

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