Using concepts of the French sociologist Henri Lefebvre as a point of departure, Dorit Margreiter's exhibition “Everyday Life” involved various ways of showing how modern information technologies shape our social, economic, and cultural life, thereby also determining the conditions for the worlds of design, advertising, and production. The chief resource for Margreiter's reflections on content and aesthetics is television, that arguably most “everyday” and globally accessible of media. Drawing sophisticated parallels between reality and fiction, Margreiter examines the way daily life reflects