Lev Manovich, “The Anti-Sublime Ideal in Data Art” (Berlin, August 2002).

Dimensionality is an interesting way of understanding new media. Often I find that with new media art artists are considering the fact that they are discovering new things... I find it more interesting to imagine that we are becoming more aware of dimentionality with different mediums.

Digital mediums have come around with some strange effects. They are seemingly labourless. I guess art is always condemned to this idea. When things are created so well they seem as if they have just apperated into being rather than many years of labor and many stages of creation.

The layered aspect of digital tools is fascinating. On one hand designing from a style sheet seems to be a revolution a complete restructuring of a design process. On the other hand is just a reformation of rulers and text guides that were used for design in the past.

"This is why I refer to this type of new media as “meta-media.” A meta-media object contains both language and meta-language – both the original media structure (a film, an architectural space, a sound track) and the software tools that allow the user to generate descriptions of this structure and to change this structure."