Vanilla is an open-source, standards-compliant, multi-lingual, fully extensible discussion forum for the web. Anyone who has web-space that meets the requirements can download and use Vanilla for free!

It's early days in what promises to be the long death of a galactic civilization so it is going to be hard to discern how things might reshape themselves under this bombardment, how art and the art-world might re-articulate new models of value.

Does technology liberate or enslave? The tension between technology as empowering versus technology as sinister control continues. The web versus the database, liberation or tool of tyranny?