Media art projects are an important contribution to the examination of democratic and social political implications of information society. To bring together artistic forms of expression with digital media means an essential challenge to cultural policy. Neo-liberal standpoints that view the connection between new technologies and art in faster and more efficient ways to bring up art to free-market economy ignore socio-cultural correlations. government-austria.at sets its emphasis on the interrelation between contemporary art and new media and therefore invited national and international artists to design web projects dealing with the political situation in Austria and giving impressions of "another" Austria.