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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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| Remixing and Remixability- Lev Manovich
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| The article identifies the word “remix” in consideration to the statues of law through the 21st century point of view.
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| Technology today enables people to remix all sorts of data.
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| Information got speed up by the use of Internet, because none of these paths of information are one-way roads.
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| This information can come from all from all kinds of sources.
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| All these different types of information creates different types of media which can be imported into our computers for editing.
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| The internet is the best “place” for this transformative process remixing is.
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| A space where our heaps of data and media can be organized and shared and recombined and rebuilt .
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| This information gets remixed and made it available to others on a common information platform
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| You could say that you have a few elements that can be used together and find ways of incorporating them into your work.
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| In his article Malovich points out how everything relates to one other and is used together.
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| According to Manovich remixing and remixability is so much more, all cultures, art forms,
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| religions and even historical events have all in some way been remixed.
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| Therefore remixing and remixability is a form of a built-in feature of digital networked media universe.
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