Globalne Ocieplenie / The Mediagate exhibition aims at reflecting, through the new media artworks by international artists, our constant battle between questioning and faith towards the media, without suggesting solutions, but triggering questions and doubts about our role as users.

Marco Mancuso
Claudia D'Alonzo
Michal Brzenicki

Saso Sedlacek (Slo) - Infocalypse Now!
Filip Remunda (Czh) - Czech Dream
Mylicon (Ita) - Put down the gun
Dorota Walentynovicz - Plato Machine
Marc Lee (Usa) - Oamos
Jan Van Nuenen (Hol) - Retrospective
Yorit Klutiman (Usa) - You-Tube!

text by Marco Mancuso, Claudia
D'Alonzo & Michal Brzenicki

On November 20, 2009, just few days before the COP 15 in Copenhagen, the credibility of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - the government body that monitors the UN climate change studies, suffered a severe blow. A group of Russian hackers had published a series of documents, e-mails and confidential data from Hadley Center, Research Center of East Anglia University, one of the major international institutions of climate studies, strongly affiliated with the IPCC itself. The action seems to expose efforts of scholars and researchers to falsify data on one of the hottest media topics of the millennium: anthropic global warming, the so-called AGW. The "Climategate" has shaken the conscience of many: if international government bodies, research centers, environmental organizations and even ecologist organizations like Greenpeace and even eco-activists groups have been warning us for years that independent fundamental problems like global warming, the greenhouse effect, emission harmful gases, are based on solid scientific foundations, what should we think about the leak? That global warming is all a big media game, serving superior economic and political interests? It's a doubt that many are beginning to have.

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