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FestivalTouch Me Festival 2008 - Feel Better! Feel better! Art at intersection of technology and science Student Center, Zagreb This year’s festival has a name with connotations of pleasure − Feel Better!. Touch me festival is still testing out how the individual can be bound into the network of mechanical, electro-mechanical, electronic and cybernetic aids and biotechnology, and the non-critical attitude of society towards ethical issues that the changes in contemporary technological reality open up. The topic of this edition of the international festival is related to the imperatives of happiness, pleasure and hedonism, and draws upon paradigms that explain how in the contemporary social and political system the issue of stability and control has been diverted from the area of power and repression to the area of happiness and fun. It starts off from the proposition that being down, gloomy, depressive, uninterested is equivalent to being socially unacceptable. Some of the pieces in the festival thus attempt to cheer the visitors up, to shift them into a state of short-lasting hedonism, provide them with all kinds of sensual and sensory pleasures, known and unknown.
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FestivalTouch Me Festival 2008 - Osjećaj se bolje! Osjećaj se bolje! Umjetnost na razmeđi tehnologije i znanosti Studentski Centar, Zagreb Ovogodišnji festival ima naziv koji konotira užitak − Osjećaj se bolje!. Touch me festival i dalje propituje uvezivanje pojedinca u mrežu mehaničkih, elektromehaničkih, elektronskih, kibernetičkih pomagala i biotehnologije, te ne-kritički odnos društva prema etičkim pitanjima koja otvaraju promjene suvremene tehnološke stvarnosti. Tema ovog izdanja međunarodnog festivala vezana je uz imperativ sreće, užitka i hedonizma, a temelji se na paradigmama koje tumače da se u suvremenom društveno-političkom sustavu pitanje stabilnosti i kontrole premjestilo s područja moći i represije na područje sreće i zabave. Polazi se od teze da je biti tužan, nesretan, depresivan, nezainteresiran izjednačeno s biti društveno neprihvatljiv. Neki od radova na festivalu stoga pokušavaju razvedriti posjetitelja, ubaciti ga u stanje kratkotrajnog hedonizma − pružiti mu sve vrste senzualnih i senzoričkih užitaka, što poznatih, što nepoznatih.