Returning to Benjamin: Art in the Age of AI sound Urban-Think Tank (U-TT)

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In her current retrospective exhibition at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie

Returning to Benjamin: Art in the Age of AI sound Urban-Think Tank (U-TT)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