- I think the first and easiest way for me to think about the digital was to think of as a system and to work digitally was to work within that system adhering to (or working against) those formal instructions.
- Thinking about the internet, it is an infinite number of paths and there are ways to create different paths through it. An artwork could be a set of rules that can only be carried out through the internet. In a way, a hide-and-seek and the viewer/protagonist creates their own route from A to B and back to A.
- The digital in its most basic form is the notion of something being on or off, at 1 or 0, it is the infinite possibilities that make it complex.
- In terms of art there are strong links to Dada, Fluxus and conceptual art in terms the role of formal instructions, concept, event and participation. i.e. Maholy-Nagy's 'virtual volumes' -'the outline of trajectory presented by an object in motion' concepts of digital art can exist without the technology. OULIPO, Ouvroir de Litterature Potentielle saw creative inspiration as an intellectual game.
- Inherent in the digital is the interplay of randomness and control, its inherent interactive nature. "The digital revolution is a revolution of random access". The artist is a mediator/facilitator.
- Digital art brings about the question of documentation.
- Manipulation; the reality of 'what is' at a certain point in time is constantly open to question.
- Recontextualisation; the relationship between copy and original.
- 'Hyper-real'; neither artificial nor authentic, a fiction is created.
- Question of the digital image not being representational because it is encoded. Does not record or reproduce physical reality? No continuality with a real world. Computer drawing; loss of relationship with the mark?
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