Dragons, Hydra and the 21st CenturyTest

TestBack in 1993, when ArtAsiaPacific published its first print edition, the Internet had just broken out of its shell as the World Wide Web and was still a duckling learning to swim in the waters of global communication. Today, the Internet and its denizens, its billions of social-media users, resemble—excuse the mixed metaphor—a giant, cyborg squid with writhing tentacles and a predilection for dispensing fake news, encouraging abuse and exploitation, and enabling bad habits such as phishing, trolling and spamming while spawning addiction and insomnia.

It takes a lot of skill and talent, not to mention the resources of time and attention, to control and synthesize this undisciplined beast and put went online in 2003, we have attempted to keep up with the relentless pace and capriciousness of the Internet—without the publishing equivalents of artificial hormones, steroids, cortisone or antidepressants—to reach a wider, younger audience for whom an art magazine may seem like an artifact from the past, a fossilized dinosaur. In 2018, the technological Hydra of the 21st century are more varied, alive and vital than ever before.