II
The Medium


A medium for art must be unlimited, to allow for creation to be expressed in the fullest. At the same time, we must accept some limitation: as with the edges of a canvas.

The building block of all digital creation is the file. Practically all digital creation can be stored, in some form, as a file. So we will allow for all file types, to allow for the widest range of expression.

A complex composition can involve many elements, such as combinations of images, text, and video. To allow for complex composition, we must allow for many files.

So the most permissive, and thus expressive, medium for digital art to be created and stored is in its original format, the file. As cultural works created digitally can have many files, we will store them in a folder. With some simple instructions included as to ordering, composition, and provenance, we have a maximally enabling medium for digital art to be created.

The folder contains the raw content and all the information necessary to construct the composition. We call this the “Bloc”.