Data.Tron by Ryoji Ikeda, Postmodern Art
“It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that has forgotten how to think historically in the first place. In that case, it either ’expresses’ some deeper irrepressible historical impulse (in however distorted a fashion) or effectively ‘represses’ and diverts it, depending on the side of the ambiguity you happen to favor. Postmodernism, postmodern consciousness, may then amount to not much more than theorizing its own condition of possibility, which consist primarily in the sheer enumeration of changes and modifications.”
Data.Tron by Ryoji Ikeda can be classified as telematic art of the postmodern movement. This new aged idea of using modern technology to create collages as in the synthetic cubism movement gives each viewer a twenty first century aesthetic.
Works Cited
Jameson, Fredric, ed. Postmodernism, Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalisme. N.p.: Duke UP, 1991. Print.

















