The aesthetics of digital media flow from a related generality, where sound and image are encoded as fields of data. If a pixel is a number, an image is a grid of pixels, video a stream of images, and each of these numbers can take any value at all, then formally, an aesthetics of digital video is only a matter of finding the right values – fishing around in a space containing all possible digital video. If digital media creates this generalised space, anything at all, the media arts are faced with unavoidable questions: not only what to make – which values to choose, but how to choose them, and why?

It’s a subject that appears to fascinate the author of (the teeming void) because he’s touched on it several times before. I particularly like the phrase: “…the digital is just the analog operating within certain tolerances or threshholds.”