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"Excitement about new technologies and software justifies all our inactions," he said. "We are obsessed with communication and technology, and we foolishly imagine that this will somehow save the planet. But all it does is keep us so busy that we don't have to think about anything. We have become very, very lazy."
Asked for years to come to Europe's most prestigious digital arts festival, Toscani finally agreed -- and blasted the whole idea of digital art, suggesting that Ars Electronica might be better off without electricity.
"Then you wouldn't do so much crap, so much garbage," he said.
Of course, he did have a point.
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What to do about that? Again and again, Toscani returned to the theme of resisting mass culture -- or, in the case of digital artists, resisting the urge to do things just because you can, rather than out of any strong and clear inspiration.
"The artist should have the power to free himself from his own fear," he said. "We have to have the courage to risk being different."
The full article appears in Wired online here: