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| Jos de Mul- The work of art in the age of digital recombination.
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| In “The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Recombination,” Dutch philosopher Joe de Mul discusses
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| Walter Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,
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| and through this work of Benjamin de Mul looks at its relevancy in our daily lives.
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| As we spend a lot of time in front of our computers, de Mul analyzes that the interface
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| of our computers structures and changes our aesthetic experiences.
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| Nowadays it’s better to look at the manipulative value of a certain than at the value of exhibiting a work of art.
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| He claims that the authenticity no longer resides in the history of a work but in it the virtual quality of a work.
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| The databases of today, he believes allows us to make infinite searches, (re-)combinations and through
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| this constant transformation it could be considered as a work of art.
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| As our lives seem to move from our houses to cyberspace.
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| According to this huge changes de Mul points out that it is necessary that we also change our way
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| we look at art and the way we critique art along with the digital evolution in order to keep up and understand art.
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