Post Scripts in the Present Future: Conjuring the Post-conditions of Digital Objects

Navigating the post-conditions of digital objects, from post media to post-internet, this chapter explores how might making and learning in art and media education respond to pervasive connectivity that blurs online and offline distinctions. In an attempt to anticipate a future of algorithms, connectivity, and issues of access, an argument to advance a range of theoretical tools that may provide insight as to the immanent qualities of data and connectivity that impact making and learning in the arts is made. Focusing on posthumanism and post-theories constructed to provoke the dynamism of materiality, digital objects are conceptualized to understand new opportunities for contemplating how artists working in 3D modeling and digital fabrication may offer insights into the possibility of making meaning at this moment.