Note: The author of the article “What does art have to do with the public? The dilemma of the art institutions”, having been long faced with unequal resource allocation of the public and a multitude of negotiations between different sectors, attempts to strike a balance between collective and personal aesthetics, and to deliberate on an optimal compromised solution within the curatorial framework under the name of “digital art”. What cannot be neglected is that the workers in art industry are burdened with the sense of futility from its ecosystem, and that exhibitions fails to truly reflect the risks in art management; more often than not, the aforementioned leads to more questions such as the unsound art environment, the politics, or inability for public/private sectors to come to a set of sound evaluation/funding mechanism.