RETURNING TO BENJAMIN

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 repro...[Read more]