Returning to Benjamin: Art in the Age of AI (Paperback)
Victor Burgin
ISBN 10: 1917651341 ISBN 13: 9781917651349
Published by MACK, London, 2025
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Paperback. Walter Benjamins essay of cultural criticism The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction has become a classic text, one which resonated through the twentieth century and beyond. In it, Benjamin suggested the mediums of photography and film had dissolved the auratic quality of art. Today, digital technology has dissolved the very category of medium itself. In this pair of succinct and pointed essays, the artist and writer Victor Burgin rereads Benjamins 1935 text twice: first to consider the relation of art to digital reproduction, and second to reflect on the further implications of artificial intelligence. Completed by a conversation with media theorist Katrina Sluis, these texts offer a compelling engagement with the image today, arguing that the camera is now profoundly imbricated in that which is not visible. Victor Burgin rereads Walter Benjamins classic text The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction in consideration of the relation of art to digital reproduction and artificial intelligence. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781917651349
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Walter Benjamin’s essay of cultural criticism ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’ has become a ‘classic’ text, one which resonated through the twentieth century and beyond. In it, Benjamin suggested the mediums of photography and film had dissolved the auratic quality of art. Today, digital technology has dissolved the very category of ‘medium’ itself. In this pair of succinct and pointed essays, the artist and writer Victor Burgin rereads Benjamin’s 1935 text twice: first to consider the relation of art to digital reproduction, and second to reflect on the further implications of artificial intelligence. Completed by a conversation with media theorist Katrina Sluis, these texts offer a compelling engagement with the image today, arguing that the camera is now profoundly imbricated in that which is not visible.
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Title: Returning to Benjamin: Art in the Age of AI ...
Publisher: MACK, London
Publication Date: 2025
Binding: Paperback
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