And what about your Good Morning New World?

Since more than two decades, mankind's passage to the epoch of digital media revolutionizes all our familiar ways of life, mental, social and emotional behaviors, methods of production and consumption, means and tools of communication. The digitally enabled globalization offers quite unlimited possibilities, while engendering tremendous contradictions and ambiguities that challenge mindful questioning and creative responsibility - a crucial endeavor for the arts of our time.

All art is applied art, but its most important application is its chance to resist getting lost in complicity with the "Society of spectacle".  This notion of French Situationist Guy Debord was the title of his worldwide influential book on the times of telematic Mass Media communication, when after WW2 television began to spread out in the European countries, setting movie houses under pressure. Later on, with the abilities of digital media, the public space was more and more filled with optical motion, be it by large advertisement screens on the walls of company buildings, or by mini screens in the hands of mobile phone owners. Thus, we can transform Debord's term into "The society of the moving image spectacle". As animals - even as Homo erectus - we share with our natural relatives the need to react on any motion in the field of perception, and on light in motion even more. With these motion pictures we pass to a new Era of Enlightenment, and a kind of new perspective center is created by the energy of illuminated fields in motion. Thus, pictures in motion can be used as trap by any advertising predator industry designing our desires and needs. As a backflow, it infects the arts as well.

On the other hand, digitalization and globalization made possible a quite unlimited communication and cooperation for artists and art schools from all parts of the world.. Thus, CAA Hangzhou and Kassel Art School could plan and realize this exchange exhibition. The first venue - "Concepts of poetry confronting real times", CAA as guest at Kassel - was realized in Kassel's Palais Bellevue. For the second venue, Kassel Art school contributes "And what about your Good Morning New World?" to the dialogue exhibition of the two Art Schools in the CAA Museum. We hope to continue and intensify this artistic dialogue and exchange of experiences, ideas and creative insights that art can propose when building up chances of global future.