1986: Neo-Geo

The Neo-Geo movement forms in the East Village, with artists creating works under umbrella labels such as conceptual abstraction, self-conscious abstraction, or third-person abstraction, as a reaction to neo-expressionism; but was dismissed as being merely a marketing ploy. As with many art movements beginning in the second turning, a wary eye was cast on technology, that artists used as a footnote to their work. Some artists, such as Peter Halley was more specific and precise in its intention:

Source: Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings (p. 165)

Prison with Underground Conduit, 1983