Presented at the symposium "That Media Thing", October 1999.
Organized by Netherlands Media Art Institute, MonteVideo/TBA
in co-operation with ASCA (the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis)
and L&B (Lier & Boog, Series of Philosophy of Art and Art theory)

Published in Lier en Boog Series of Philosophy of Art and Art Theory Volume 15 "Screen-Based Art"

In the spring of 2002 Dutch National Television ran a series of programs devoted to "digital art". The accompanying website digitalekunst.nl hosted, among others, a forum meant as a platform for discussion of a pre-defined set of topics and themes.
The following text (in Dutch) is my repsonse to one of these topics.