The main idea of the exhibition project is to contribute to develop an alternative cartography, revoking the hierarchic relation of the dominant art history. As the initiative of free circulation the NET meant total de-hierarchisation. From today's perspective it seems to be one of the first projects that redrew the cultural map, replacing the binary order of the Cold War with a topography of connectedness proposed from below, running counter to dominant narratives issued from above. 

Looking back to the 1970s we can also find it as a new way of communication forecasting mediatised society and spreading communication space of today's users of net. The project of free exchange, formulated almost 50 years ago, can still serve as a benchmark for today's subversive practice against the mainstream. A network of contacts developed between artists, independent of institutional structures and above political barriers as well as beyond the centre-peripheries dichotomy undoubtedly can be a significant backdrop to the current discussions about the alternative character of the Internet-based social networks and  activism mobilised for various social and political causes.

The exhibition offering an insight into the archive of the NET project will show the art of dialogue and dissent. The art developed in dialogue between the artists and the art evolved in disagreement with ideological and political barriers. It provides remarkable examples of artistic exchange between the artists from Latin America and Eastern Europe, between left-leaning artists living under military dictatorships on the one hand and the anti-communist artists living in ideological confinement on the other. 

The archive of NET constitute an unique document of its time and changes that occurred on the cultural and political map. These testimonies of artistic activities can offer an insight into the global art world perceived in its diversity, the various developments and experiences in different countries.