Postdigital is a term which has recently come into use in the discourse of digital artistic practice. Digital art most commonly refers to Art created on a Computer in Digital form This term points significantly to our rapidly changed and changing relationships with digital technologies and art forms. It points to an attitude that is more concerned with being human, than with being digital.
Kim Cascone uses the term in his article The Aesthetics of Failure: "Post-digital" Tendencies in Contemporary Computer Music. Kim Cascone (December 21 1955 Albion Michigan is an American Composer of Electronic music, who is best known for his releases in the ambient [1] He begins the article with a quotation from MIT Media Lab cyberpundit Nicholas Negroponte: "The digital revolution is over. Nicholas Negroponte (born December 1, 1943) is a Greek-American Architect and Computer scientist best known as the founder and Chairman This article presents a Timeline of events in the history of Computing from 1950 to 1979 " Cascone goes on to describe what he sees as a 'post-digital' line of flight in the music also commonly known as glitch or microsound music, observing that 'with electronic commerce now a natural part of the business fabric of the Western world and Hollywood cranking out digital fluff by the gigabyte, the medium of digital technology holds less fascination for composers in and of itself. Electronic commerce, commonly known as e-commerce' or eCommerce, consists of the buying and selling of products or services over electronic '
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- Ascott, R. Digital art most commonly refers to Art created on a Computer in Digital form Postmodernism literally means 'after the modernist movement' While " Modern " itself refers to something "related to the present" the movement of modernism In literary and Critical theory, posthumanism or post-humanism, meaning beyond humanism, is a major European Continental philosophy (2003). Telematic Embrace. (E. Shaken, ed. ) Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-21803-5
- Barreto, Ricardo and Perissinotto, Paula “the_culture_of_immanence”, in Internet Art. Ricardo Barreto e Paula Perissinotto (orgs. ). São Paulo, IMESP, 2002. ISBN: 85-7060-038-0.
- Wilson, Steve Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology ISBN 0-262-23209-X
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