The most radical insight afforded by the extension of his (Benjamin’s) argument is not, it seems to us, that art is being lead by a new avant-garde into a technologically driven future, but that the boundaries of art and all other media ...
Boy holding large turkey, Digital ID: cph 3a46717 Source: digital file from b&w film copy neg. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-46550 (b&w film copy neg.) Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, ...
Bear in mind that the general theme of the exhibition, notation, generally included any work that might be seen an attempt to systematically codify and preserve a representational event. Moreover, the curators immediately identified ...
The authenticity of art in any form itself lives in its reproduction. The work of art is reproduction of the real. Digital technology has brought the re-reproduction of real very close to the contemporary masses “spatially and humanly. ...
Benjamin begins with the essential issue of authenticity, arguing that “even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence…”. Benjamin goes on to describe ...
This image is of a quote, taken from Douglas Davis' essay, "The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction," which argues (in part) that unlike analogue signals, which are like waves crashing upon a beach and losing clarity with ...
Pictured left, the beautiful Hasselblad H3D 39-Megapixel Medium Format Digital camera (German engineering again, and with a price tag of $32000 this ain’t no Powershot, ok?) with which ancient works of fine art are photographed, ...
My name is Mary Victoria Smiley, but I have been "Torrie" my entire life and now sign and certify my work by just the one name. I began selling my art on Ebay in November 2005, and have sold to collectors in 35 states, Europe, Canada, ...
But what does this have to do with technology, especially given that one of the world foremost New Media Art Museums, the ZKM, is hosting it? As apparently evident in the exhibition’s first disciplinary sphere of focus, the curators ...
