It is no longer man who paints animals or machines on walls. Now the explosion of the arts, which is at the same time an explosion of signs has led to machines drawing signs by themselves. Tools no longer serve to fullfill man's will and to give signs material, real form. Rather, tools themselves set signs and the realm of signs sets reality. Symbol-processing machines, such as the computer, have made signs autonomous agents.
Machines create new autonomous models of the world and of tools.
Media art shows us this new phase of the autonomous, symbol-processing machine. The explosion of the arts is followed by the explosion of signs - with the help of machines. The toolculture has entered a new phase, namely that of the intrinsic world of the world of machines. Tools did not evolve from language and language not from tools. Language and technology have developed on this common ground.