The topic of the meeting that Thursday night was Internet activism. The crucial, perhaps final media campaign starts soon. Please mail to Chang Cheng-Yang . In this climate, with a relative weak net.culture, media companies can easily dominate this new medium. A business newsletter even has over 300.000 e-mail subscribers.
Web sites are simply too public.
Having changed identity, and being able express one self anonymously, Taiwanese net.culture suddenly awakes. Digital existentialism, made in Yugoland. The island seems to be more international, even compared to a few years ago. More and more speakers, curators and artists are coming to visit, and work. This weekend we attended a lecture by the French theorist of new social movements Alain Touraine, and a mass performance by the somewhat sad, melancholic, yet extremely successful Peter Eisenman, who is now building a museum in Hsinchu.