"Update 2.0 brings up to date the media packge "Current Media Art" that first appeared in 1998. The latest production in the scope of the joint Goethe Instutute and ZKM project dedicated to documenting the history of media art in Germany is a catalogue of art produced on videotape, CD-ROM and the internet between 1997 and 2000. As a programme or exhibition, "Update 2.0" can be placed at the disposal of the Goethe Institutes and their local partners." -- Página 7

El arte del siglo XX ha afectado profundamente a las categorías de la estética idealista, que, sin embargo, se propone como marco teórico adecuado para la comprensión del arte actual. El libro de Bürger aborda su crítica en el horizonte de la situación creada por el arte actual y en el análisis de los límites de las críticas realizadas por Adorno, Benjamin y Gamader.

"El título de esta obra nos remite a las características de un instrumento para medir las sensaciones que experimentamos al ser testimonios y observadores de la pobreza de sociedades alejadas de la nuestra. El origen de la obra se remonta a un viaje de la artista a la India. Con instalaciones, dibujos y collages, artículos y textos, Creischer explora las relaciones entre la política oficial, los negocios y la cultura, una encrucijada en la que se originan nuevos tipos de alienación y perversión manipuladora." -- Página web

“This volume brings together essays, letters, dramas, and poems which reveal the full depth of thought of Klee, Kirchner, Kokoschka, Kandinsky, Beckmann, and twelve other Expressionist artists. Some selections illuminate the artist’s feelings about his work, as in Max Beckmann’s pronouncement: “… I paint to develop my style in term of deep space, something which …penetrate into the very core of nature and the spirit of things.” Others, such as Franz Marc’s “In war’s Purifying Fire,” illustrate the artist’s involvement in events taking place around him.” -- Cubierta posterior

"In the wake of fast-mopving developments in global information and comunicattions technology, multimedia and interactive applicattions have gained increasing importance. This applies equally to the world of media art. For this reason, the contemporary secttion of this package, entitled "Current Media Art", includes pieces created by German media artists on CD-ROM and the internet side by side with works on video." -- Página 3