Artist: Jaenine Parkinson
Confronting Bodies: people of lower socio-economic status, vs the economicly electronically enabled
Date of Action: Sunday, 13 June 2004
Specific Location: www
Description of Artwork: non-electronic Low Economic value
Description of Incident: Voices of those who do not have access to the internet continue to be silenced. The web only gives a voice and subsequent power and knowledge to those with the financial ablity- this is the greatest form of censorship, not those moments when the freedom of speach we have come to expect is temporarly restricted.
Results of Incident: discrimination, oppression and censorship continues on the grounds economic status. The web cannot be seen as containing within it democratic tendencies.
Source: thinking
Submitted By: Jaenine Parkinson