Utopianism, Technology, and the Avant-Garde: The Artist Shaping the Social Condition

The effects of art and Technology and there interference in the social and political discourse have been existing since the turn of the 20th century. Starting with the Modernist movement to the Futuristic. It has been always the artist that controls the vision of the society towards the social conditions and the government. That's because the artist is the warrior who goes against any ideologies or theories and opens the eyes of the society to see beyond these restrictions by the government. Another example is the Dadaist movement who went against the idea of the high art society and took a totally different approach with different kinds of art. During the 30s, the Bauhaus movement started defending against consumerism and the repetition of daily genres. They also went against the society's norms and treated some political and mass media figures in a God-like treatment, which affected the society's way of thinking about them and seeing pop culture. At the turn of the millenium, artists like Peter Weibel changed the way people look at the political and social conditions by emerging technology and the internet into the new ideologies. He created the net_condition exhibit that deals with the different conditions in the society. Our social conditions, political discourse, artistic and scientific developments, and our way of communication have changed because of the new advances in technology and the net. The net is becoming the driving force that is controlling the society's behavior and its members' way of communication.

Additional sources
http://www.zakros.com/bios/utopianism.html
http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/isast/articles/shanken.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Lissitzky