Art is no longer today merely an aesthetic experience, but has become a means for many to learn about the world. Prior to this era of Post-Modernity--an age of transition in which the rebuilding of all facets of civilization's foundation is under scrutiny--the rationalist mind has traditionally abhorred the non-linear, the imprecise and the unpredictable. Contrary to Modernist thought, Postmodern art embraces chaos and is characterized by pastiche. Art in a Post-Modern world neither belongs to a unitary frame of reference, or to a single project. The plurality of perspectives leads to a fragmentation of experience, with the collage becoming a key artistic technique of our era.

Thanks to electronic technology, international cultural symbols are more easily accessible (a lot of images are actually owned, and intellectual properties (plagiarism) and copyright issues are a hot, legal topic for the web); people everywhere combine traditions, borrow rituals, and appropriate imagery. Stylistic elements and thematic concerns from various periods are assembled together; because of new technology fresh effects alter old forms and blur history within the single frame. There is no doubt that new possibilities are emerging and these changes will alter the visual means of communication across multiple disciplines. As societies shared cognition of time and space is remade because of electronic media and life's quick pace, the experience of the spectator is becoming undeniably fluid.