Digital Arts’ Black Sheep

Abstract

Contrary to the plethora of festivals dealing with the digital arts, digital music and digital media, there is essentially little discussion about what the digital means to us. It seems the term‚digital‘ has a kind of magic attraction which nobody can resist. In this way, the digital is not only a technological development, but a quality as such, which does not seem to be questioned. As a musician who has started her artistic career with tape recorder reels and patch cords, who has moved faders and buttons and who has edited tape by hand, this is confusing. Analogue is out, odd in any case, and unfashionable. Who wants to be like that? It seems to me like a tribe which hides its genealogical tree, because otherwise the black sheep of the family has to be called by its name.