The creative use of networks makes them organisms. The work is never in a state of completion, how could it be so? Telematique is a decentralising medium; its metaphor is that of a web or net in which there is no centre, or hierarchy, no top nor bottom. It breaks the boundaries not only of the insular individual but of institutions, territories and time zones.
Roy Ascott, Art and Telematics : towards a network consciousness, Art Telecommunications, éd. Heidi Grundmann, The Western Front, 1984.