Post Digital

What is Post Digital? Post digital is a term which has recently come into use in the discourse of digital artistic practice. This term points significantly to our changed and changing relationships with digital technologies that is rapidly changing and forming. It reflects to an attitude that is more concerned with being human, than with being digital. Which means that it is more or less taking over our human minds. Its the new beginning some can say or its the end. Post Digital is the new era of where new technologies are being formed and created. Post-digital to mean the condition of being fully reconciled to the disruption brought about by digital technology, and in particular the Web. It is much the same, in that sense, as ‘Postmodernism’, which really means the condition of having overcome the ‘shock of the new’, the culture of high modernism, and having absorbed its lessons. Being post-digital, we are, to repeat my previous post, through the future-shock and over the nostalgia (largely – we can still be nostalgic, in increasingly kitsch ways, for modernism and for ‘digital’). Being ‘post’ anything usually leads to a period of self-reflexivity and a prevailing irony about ‘progress’ that undercuts conscious artistic ambition.http://www.howtothinkaboutthefuture.com/?p=81