AltArt started out 23 years ago as an NGO producing high art for specialized audiences using hi-tech equipment, went through producing public art for citizens 10 years ago and ended up doing community culture with marginalized communities using "pop technologies" today. This self-transformation was catalyzed by the way the Foundation perceived the transformation of the emancipatory potential of art / culture in the past decades, an put in motion by the Foundation's commitment to assume its mission as a cultural contributor in the overall social transformation process.