Among both the general public and even a significant number of art curators and critics, the connection between art and politics tends to be viewed with suspicion. Many people see artivism as camouflaged political activism that, in reality, does not have the slightest aesthetic justification. Some artivists in fact take advantage of this phenomenon and prefer to call themselves "artists" simply so as to have fewer legal problems when they organize a campaign. Parallel to this, the world of politics increasingly appears to appeal to aesthetic values and performances, letting their messages and ideologies slip into the background.

In this article, the author looks beyond the justification that "since Duchamp anything is okay" and attempts to understand the connection between art and politics in the field of electronic art. Basing himself on the Wittgensteinian motto "exhibit differences", he sets out to reveal a series of differences between art and politics in order to analyse in which contexts this combination is justified.

Summed up, the central thesis is that the meeting point between digital art and politics must be understood above all as an ethical commitment by the artist to the new channels of electronic communication, meaning that certain discourses and political positions become comprehensible, even desirable, in purely artistic actions that strongly depend on network structures.