“…Thus, what I want to present here is an outline of a line of interpretation – both historical and theoretical – that attempts to do that: To make a connection between ‘any’ contemporary art and new media art in order to discuss a difference. I take my point of departure in the notion of immateriality. Immateriality – along with its derivative notions immaterial art and immaterial aesthetics – is a prevailing notion in current discussions on art in the context of new media art and information technology. The notion refers to the new conditions that the digitization of artistic and cultural practices in general has prompted. Today the computer is a common artistic medium both as a tool and as an artistic medium in itself. Software and digitized data are replacing the traditional physical dimensions of artworks. As such, immateriality is evidently a relevant notion as it quite accurately designates the significant and extensive changes in contemporary art that new media art has introduced.” From Conceptualizing Materiality – Art from the Dematerialization of the Object to the Condition of Immateriality by Jacob Lillemose [posted on Histories and Theories of Intermedia]