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THE WORLD OF ART IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL RECOMBINATION

Walter Benjamin The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

What is media

  • Designation: us + our world
  • Communication: us + our fellow
  • Self-understanding: us + ourselves

Aura
As a 'unique phenomenon of a distance however close it may be' represents nothing but the formulation of the cult value of the work of art in categories of space and time perception.

Auratic work of art

  • Sensible & Supersensible
  • Material signifier & Spiritual meaning

Jos de Mul

Transformation mode
Cult Value > Exhibition Value > Manipulation Value

Aim
This reflection by analysing the way the computer interface constitutes and structures aesthetic experience.

4 Operations of database

  • Insert
  • Select
  • Update
  • Delete

Theme

  • In the age of digital recombination, the database constitutes the ontological model of the work of art.
  • In this transformation, the exhibition value is being replaced by what we might call manipulation value.