Why NFTs Failed as a Digital Art Medium
In his seminal work, Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Walter Benjamin makes the argument that there is a quality to the work as a material object that is absent when the formal content alone is reproduced and circulated; this, he names the ‘aura’ of the work. The reproduced work is inherently non-auratic; ‘aura’…
Public Art and The Politics of Perception
Walking around in London, you can’t help but notice the amount of statues within our public parks, squares and streets. Although I don’t always take note of each individual being commemorated, I know that a largely singular narrative is being perpetuated in these sculptures: the seeming normalcy of white maleness. This is not just my…
Furuhashi’s Lovers Escape into ChatGPT
In the week leading up to February 14th, I attended Elliot Gibbons’s lecture on the Kyoto-based art collective Dumb Type, its founder Teiji Furuhashi, and his immersive installation Lovers (1994). It struck me that this chronological “coincidence” resonated less with the conventional anticipation of Valentine’s Day than with the spirit of Anti-Valentine’s Week – a…
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