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Victor Burgin – Returning to Benjamin: Art in the Age of AI

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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 implicatio

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