Roy Ascott's 1989 essay, "Gesamtdatenwerk: Connectivity, Transformation and Transcendence" may help inspire and expand considerations of the notion of Gesamtelewerk. Like Moholy's plea for a Gesamtwerk, Ascott's concept of Gesamtdatenwerk envisions a synthesis of art and life in which individuals actively contribute to the creation of meaning on a global scale.

Telematics, for Ascott, can facilitate this aspiration by dissolving the conventional opposition between subject and object, creating an all-embracing field of connectivity and exchange.

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– Edward Shanken