"The computer provides nonsynchronous simultaneity for collective authors: composition and editing can be done in different places at the same time." Mark Poster, The Mode of Information: Poststructuralism and Social Context, p114





Using the refuse of the city street Robert Rauschenberg has built a large body collages, sculptures and paintings.

His works, such as Black Market (below) challenge (as did many of the Pop Artists) traditional/modernist notions of the 'art piece'.









BLACK MARKET, 1961, ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG



Black Market, incorporates a level of interactivy. Viewer/authors of the piece are encouraged to exchange items by removing objects from the piece and replacing them with others. The exchange is then recorded by the co-authors in a notebook sketching and stamp provided by Rauschenberg.



"Electronic writing ... disperses the subject so that it no longer functions as a center in the way it did in pre-electronic writing." Mark Poster, The Mode of Information: Poststructuralism and Social Context, p100