[from the site:] the net_institute reveals the social simulation of content, normally protected by institutional or antagonistic rhetoric, and the power frames hidden in the art world and counterculture. at the same time as the institutions are hosting subversive net_artists and cultural terrorists, the net_institute itself becomes an institution. as the real power leaves the government buildings to move to faceless corporations, the net_institute gets hold of abandoned simulacra, occupies the center of the territory, makes the power relationship visible again. since power no longer has a face, a center, a head, the net_institute turns the net in a collective and organized intelligence. the net_institute does not live in the underwoods of the net.