Our perception of the properties of matter has been transformed.
Human agency is being colonized under the homogeny of the digital age.
All histories are now told in immediate high-definition.
The individual can only contemplate the totality of the raw material being broadcast.
Light, in the form of the camera and the cinema, and sound, in the form of the microphone and the phonograph, have subverted the human agency of recording and reproducing as our experience.
The aesthetic experience has been compromised and decompressed by the acceleration of matter in these new mediums.
The original cannot exist with the digital.
Production has become an algorithm.
The ‘work’ being transposed into the binary network, reassembled as projection as if anew, is inherently a copy.
Appropriation has become the most natural state of a contemporary artist.
The artist must make claims as to what is theirs, making refuge of the detritus of the digital material.
It is only appropriate.
The digital has rendered the agency of the artist immaterial.

 

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