Returning to Benjamin: Art in the Age of AI
Walter Benjaminâs essay of cultural criticism âThe Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproductionâ has become a âclassicâ 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 âmediumâ itself.âŻÂ
In this pair of succinct and pointed essays, the artist and writer Victor Burgin rereads Benjaminâs 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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Walter Benjaminâs essay of cultural criticism âThe Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproductionâ has become a âclassicâ 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 âmediumâ itself.âŻÂ
In this pair of succinct and pointed essays, the artist and writer Victor Burgin rereads Benjaminâs 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.
