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Even though digital works seem more “concrete” than many concrete works in certain respects, they are immaterial, merely an array of pixels on the screen, a representation of binary data constituted of a string of zeros and ones with no physical, material body whatsoever. Paradoxically, the simulation of concreteness is the result of very advanced abstract processes.
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