Leave No Trace

‘Metacreation: Art and Artificial Life’ by Mitchell Whitelaw describes how new media art self-consciously reworks technology into culture, and rereads technology as culture:

…it manipulates the technology itself, with a nonindustrial latitude that admits misapplication and adaptation, rewiring and hacking, pseudofunctionality and accident. New media art also fractures that technocultural material into millions of heterogeneous interests and agendas, specific investigations, aesthetics, approaches and projects. Whitelaw, p5.

I see this as a powerful argument and justification for the specific choice of new media in art as tools or techniques when addressing issues of technology.