'Aitiai' concerning genetic art

This paper adapts an essential aspect of Aristotle's concept of 'aitiai' suggesting an analogous interpreta-tion in new media 'Genetic art' theory called the 'Proto – animate Condition.' I argue that fundamen-tally, causal properties underlying the concept of aitiai are characteristically pending action requisites and that this property is somewhat analogous to the causal properties of proto – animation