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The most significant charactor of network-able environment is 'real time' recognition. Right now. Right here. Individual nodes get together and become a massive cloud. As a collective inteligence, "nowThen. Crowded? " shows how the media art realm streams in the real world.
Creators get a new role in new media technology environments, especially in netwrok system. They take messaages from the individual and distribute to the world. In other words, creators construct a "sturcture for in/out" instread of only delivering a purport. Maybe, media aesthetic behind the internet age, could be a 'catchable moment' in big flowing data. From this prespective, "nowThen. Crowded? " would like to see what is happeing in media arts. When? Right Now.

By Sey Min.