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« That digital technology has an aesthetic side to it is something that even the certified programmers at Microsoft have understood. I do, however, think that we’ve reached a turning point leading to a distinction between what we used to call "art" and digital technology.

While the cultural commonplaces now find themselves in a kind of “Byzantine loop”, simulating scandals and malaise that have been around for nearly a century, beneath the Web’s surface crust runs a different train of thought, one that smacks of "modification". A sort of "society without show business". One that is encrypted.

There are certain needs, expressions and processes whose form would be unthinkable outside the Web. I think of these forms as a kind of “native digital aesthetic ". I have very little interest in "artists" who try their hands at a work of web art so that they feel they are keeping up with the times.
When cultural-institutional rhetoric tries to “open doors to the future” for today’s youngsters, the effects are almost comical. The word "new" always has something of a stale ring to it.»

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