2004 Dutch Electric Art Festival The project is built by Alejandra and me. When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the Cold War was no longer the defining element in our view of the world, euphoria about an open Europe and an open society was widespread. However, increasing globalization has demonstrated that the world as an open system entails more than the spreading of cultural diversity and open markets. Since 911, openness has become associated primarily with feelings of insecurity and is regarded as a threat to our own surroundings and identity. Feeling is the engine of our actions. It has recently been demonstrated that we never do anything purely rationally. This is true of almost every human action - we cannot make a decision without relying on feeling or intuition. Interactive art - art the viewer must do something to in order to make something out of it or have an experience - is an art of feeling. Every interactive work tries to entice its user to perform certain actions, in the hope that the work will thereby reorganize itself into an unforeseen coherence. Interactive art is by definition non-autonomous and organizes itself as an open system, which functions via the exchange of matter, energy and/or information with the environment .