“Society, Luhman argues, is a system comprised of variety of sub-systems. These are operatively closed and functionally distinct from one another. Each system operates according to its own internal and self-defined rules.”
Systems meaning, rules like communication – languages, country specific traditions, social knishes – Punks or Hippies or even science Physics or chemistry all of the above follow certain line of rules, even something like Punk rock movement follows rules, i.e. hair styles or leather jackets (looking at the aesthetics of Punk Rock) have to follow certain set rules, thus creating a subculture and existing within society which is a system that comprises of many sub-systems, of which all of the above are part of.
Systems within media arts are often used in such a way where one system is used in relation to another system that did not/was not designed for its original purpose, i.e. as in ‘Semiconductor’ art installation/performance, they use data that is originally decoded to create a digital image, to generate sounds. Data for image decoding is a form of a system, this applied in to a sound decoder creates a sound.
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