Selfhood and Artistic Individuality in “Bits” — What Gets Lost in the Translation from Analogue to Digital

The aim of our contribution is to bring to the fore some questions about the self and the digital by asking: who is the “I”, or what can we make of it, in a world mediated by digital tools? We do so by first framing our discourse through the lenses of a phenomenological understanding of the artistic gestures and artistic individuality. In fact, if a study on the notion of individuality in digital arts foregrounds, as we will see, foundational issues of the practice, what this makes as urgent as ever is the question whether and how we, as humans, can make sense of and understand ourselves and our actions within a “digital world” in which our actions are mediated by logico-quantitative structures, i.e. code.