In 1968, theorist and art critic Jack Burnham published ‘System Esthetics’ — a text that ultimately prophesized the art world’s move away from ‘objecthood’, a result of the natural, evolving symbiosis between humans and computer technology. He said: ‘We are now in transition from an object-oriented to a systems- oriented culture. Here change emanates, not from things, but from the way things are done.’(1) One could suggest that today’s Post-Digital era gives name to precisely what he aimed to describe; that is, as I would define it, the fluid synchronicity of physical and virtual space.
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