At this point, Art belongs to a second “topology.” Art becomes social. In the extreme case, art can emerge as content, even mass media, a meme. Here, art ceases to exist simply as a fundamental type or expression of techne. Art is born again in the sphere of technology as a multi-faceted, dimensionist version of itself. Art is compressed, flattened by the medium, like everything else. Everyone who encounters it “creates” it. The physicality of art becomes an afterthought. Art is free of itself, as data. As such, the idea of art, and art as ideal, are replaced: as art with ID; or art with mathematical, statistical, time-stamped identity, or metadata. In this configuration art is extremely fragile and prone to erasure, on more than one level.

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It is worth considering where art begins, and where does it end. Designating art's parameters, when we are talking about painting, can be as simple, one might think, as pointing to the edge of the canvas,