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To address the sub-theme of the journal: Artistic Practices in a Time of Crisis, the author discusses the context of economic cuts and recent international crises on his PhD interactive and visual design research project undertaken in Australia. Identifying an apparent root-cause of current global crises, the author in reply, has structured a research plan and created a suite of new media, interactive, technology artworks, and installation art. Notions of Zen Buddhism, and stillness through meditation, are applied in the research and context of the artworks to support awareness of wellbeing, in response to the root-cause condition. The discussion will focus on the overarching question: how can one obtain value through the arts during current times of economic reduction conditioning? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on the artwork "Again? No!" by Nikos Navridis in which the original idea is inspired by writer Samuel Beckett's phrases. The artist stated that failures gives way to frustration and despair, migration, and violence. Navridis also mention that failing are nothing short of a nightmare.