Afterword to Re@ct: Social Change Art Technology

Abstract

This is the afterword to Re@ct: Social Change Art Technology, a special issue of Media-N that gathers contributions from selected participants in the Re@ct symposium held in Dundee, Scotland in 2019. The afterword discusses the artistic origins of common communication technologies, and proposes that artists are well-placed to examine behaviors that may become commonplace as our engagement with technology, and one another, changes as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.