If someone were to look back on this time periodA specific historic time and context of an art, craft or design form objectively from the future, they would be able to observe the emergence or evolution perhaps of a number of new mediaDifferent materials used by artists, such as paint, charcoal, clay and thread. Media is the plural of MEDIUM. In this context, it refers to the thing, substance or process you use to produce an artwork. For example, an oil painting is painted using the medium of oil paint; paint, ink and clay are different media. It is also used to refer to something that binds pigments together, such as oil, acrylic, gum, egg yolk or wax. production practices that rely upon digital appropriation as their foundation.
Digital here refers to digital technologies – 1s and 0s, interchangeable, malleable, networked, modular, as opposed to analogue – specific to the medium, difficult to mix and match, fixed.