Returning to Benjamin: Art in the Age of AI anthropology Making these distinctions on the

Making these distinctions on the spot can be nerve-wracking and disastrous

living in a dank

Stijn van de Vyver and Zack Wellin

in Photography & Urban Cultures

and to not let anything bring it down

Returning to Benjamin: Art in the Age of AI anthropology Making these distinctions on theWalter 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