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

For those of you who would like to read a few contemporary responses to Walter Benjamin's essay, I point you to these oft-cited sources:

David Ross's lecture, Art and the Age of the Digital, at San Jose State University, March 2, 1999

and

THE WORK OF ART IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL REPRODUCTION An Evolving Thesis/1991-1995 by Douglas Davis

You might also pay a visit to Davis's work, "The World's First Collaborative Sentence," which is introduced here and was one of the first internet art pieces to gain major attention from the artworld. Both Christiane Paul and Rachel Greene write about this piece in their books and we'll discuss it more, in class.