“While the apparatus is granted a special position in media art, the art machine cannot exist without the artist. Even if art…
“While the apparatus is granted a special position in media art, the art machine cannot exist without the artist. Even if art can be produced without the artist’s physical engagement, this can only happen according to the algorithms or the poetry that the artist has equipped it with and under the circumstances it is installed. This further implies that in media art artisanal skill is often superseded by intellectual ability, with the idea as a centrepiece of the work, illustrating its kinship to conceptual art.”— Wagner, Sophie-Carolin. Poietry: Challenging Solitude and the Improbability of Communication. Trans. Benedek, Daniel. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2017.