Recombinant Theater and Digital Resistance

This article discusses that digital is taking over analog completely in information and communications technology, and beginning to in other fields. Practically, people want the digital (replication). But part of them still wants to have options (analog). It's interesting to think of objects like clothing in this way, because usually these terms are tied to technology. Analog (unique options) are considered high fashion, because they are so different and rare, whereas digitally replicated options are convenient but not special.
To apply this idea to art would be like a painting where there is only one copy, versus a piece that is copied and reproduced for mass production. I feel like even though Duchamp took a mass produced object, that still did not make his art digital. The object was digital before he took it out of it's normal location, but by putting it somewhere unique and attempting to give it a new meaning I believe he actually brought it back to analog.

Recombinant theater (according to Critical Art Ensemble) is where there is a performance in a public space and people can come in and out and they all add to it in a way. It is and it is not analogic. It is not because there is not just one person (i.e. director) speaking for society. It is analogic because each performance will never be replicated exactly again.

Thinking about analog and digital in the current art world would be helpful to create works that entice people because they are unique, but still similar enough to other pieces. It can promote interactivity with the audience and any other method that will make it unable to be replicated, if that is what the artist wants. With digital technology as a medium, an analog concept would juxtapose nicely.