With the post-modern digital art, image becomes a secondary manifestation, a material epiphenomenon so to speak, of the abstract code that, in a certain way, converts itself into the main vehicle of creativity.
The image doesn't exist anymore by its own right, its purpose is to obtain from the light the invisible code without depending on the material source employed.
Donald Kuspit

In the extended world presented to us by the thousands of computer networks that connects us to the whole world, the Internet assumes itself not only as an important means of artistic divulgation but also a creative one.
Being presented as a hidden world from the eyesight (the digital world needs an interlocutor to be apprehended, usually a computer screen) another world (virtual, not real) is found beyond the luminous pixels that separate it from our reality. To know this world, to understand its creative potentials, we must interact with it.
All art is a plasticisation of concepts, codes and signals that are unique. These codes and signals are dissimulated in a certain physical support. And if it was possible to retrieve the support in which they exist, what would happen? Would they be lost in the non-material space? Or another world would be discovered, previously unable for us to see by the existence of the object?
The digital has allowed us to create concepts without an object. Create art without materiality.

(Translation: André Gama Mendes)