Digital Terrestrials
“Artists suffer aftereffects of the feebleminded media and the computerized media … Artists are shifting their task to communication, using Third Materials produced by all sorts of industries.” This 1969 quote by Japanese artist Yoshida Minoru (1935–2010) eerily foreshadows the eruption of digital technology since the 1990s. It also reflects our increasing reliance on machines to assist, replace and help us understand ourselves. Given that artists—and those whom Yoshida describes as agents of alternative, anti-capitalist energy—are often at the forefront of
