net_condition_art and global media
“Modern art created the aesthetic object as a closed system in reaction to the machine·based industrial revolution. Postmodernism created a form of art as an open system of signs and practises in reaction to the postindustrial revolution of the information society. At the moment, net art is the driving force most radically transforming the closed system of the aesthetic object of modernism into the open practices of postmodernism... ”