Praise and hate coexist here; there is the exaltation of positive forces of resistance and of
a valuable cultural legacy, but there is also inconformity in relation to the disregard from part of the state and society and to the incapacity to solve basic problems.
Datumsoria: The Return of the Real is an outcome of «Art & Tech @,» a program initiated at Chronus Art Center and conceived by ZHANG Ga, which aims, through resuscitating the
valuable legacy of experiments in art and technology from the mid-20th century, to come to terms with the challenges of a technologically constructed timespace: a new reality that has altogether changed the rules of the game in work and play, in politics and economics, and in artistic imagination and
cultural sensibility.