A deluge of new information is produced daily by the art trade, art reviews, artists, and the machinery of art exhibitions. But at the same time the value of information is disappearing. As there is no time to reflect on information and to discern its relevance, we register everything, being captured by information technology. The accumulation of information, which was made with the aim of comprehensiveness but without a sense of the whole, may be imposing but it leads us nowhere. As researchers' predilections and questions change with time, the relation between art and reality and between art and the artist as a person has changed.
Contemporary art is a project that can produce in one a specific relationship to reality.
Traditional categories are no longer valid, even though they continue to exist. Other special fields, such as genetic engineering, cybernetics, artificial intelligence, cyberspace, as well as ecology, sociology, and AIDS are being introduced. The outcome of the discussions will be published in a Contemporary Art Working Group Gazette .