Contemporary art should be characterized by the paradox 'timeless' and 'timely'.

As in contemporary digital art the awareness of tradition, and with it the sense of the timelessness of art, seems to be disappearing, it is useful to recall the methodology of the German artist Markus Lüpertz: "I am in discourse with the paintings from previous generations, from my contemporaries, and from the future."

Dutch architect Winy Maas calls for a conscientious process of "copy paste" to bring about true innovation.

At the same time, contemporary art 'speaks', in the words of creative technologist John Maeda, 'machine'. This means that the artwork is constantly being regenerated using algorithms and environment parameters. Beauty is automated and generated by code.