CRITICAL ART ENSEMBLE

CRITICAL ART ENSEMBLE - Digital Resistance

Electronic Civil Disobedience that was created in 1994, according to the Critical Art Ensemble, should be kept out of the public. Like every theory, it had its flaws, and since they have become more apparent, is more of a reason as to why it should not be used. In other words, it is underground and CAE wanted to keep it that way. Electronic Civil Disobedience is just an inversion of Civil Disobedience.

This article believes that there will not ever be a people united because that in itself creates a form of separatism. CAE believes that the direct approach is always the most effective in the end, versus an indirect approach. Any small form of electronic manipulation was seen as unsuccessful.

In 1995, CAE stated that ECA worked because the informing of digital resistance created paranoia that had a domino effect and in turn, (yet CAE wishes that they had never made that comment due to activists who have taken it seriously) brought the state to power.

Today ECD, it is out of the limelight and being viewed as a “cyber fad”. My input is that as long as there is control over the internet (ICANN), not much can really happen. Everything (media, newspapers, television, and internet) is controlled by a particular state, and usually the same ones.