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The rise of the network society has substantially changed the structure of human experience in all important fields of life and culture. In his ground-breaking trilogy entitled The Rise of the Network Society, Manuel Castells has created a theoretical framework for understanding this new reality we live in. The article attempts to regard contemporary art as one of the global flows, which is a term coined by Castells to describe the network reality. As far as art is concerned, conclusions drawn from this analysis are unappealing.