ABSTRACT
The various types of television critique respond to one of the pressing problems of contemporary Indonesian and global society, namely the cultural and environmental degradation caused by the media. Contemporary Indonesia is a prime example of how television causes the pollution of people's cultural as well as natural environments. The work of Deleuze and Guattari is popular in the world of contemporary art and has reached Indonesian artists in one form or another through their active participation in numerous international festivals and networks. A different, arguably more complex strand of eco-aesthetics is represented by artists whose work, since the 1960s, can be understood in terms of cybernetics, or the interdisciplinary analysis of regulatory systems developed by figures like the British anthropologist and social scientist Gregory Bateson. The focus on creative interventions in the overlapping contexts of Cultural Studies and Area Studies sets the media ecological approach apart from other approaches to the study of the media and popular culture.
