Media Changes and Exchanges: Beyond the Paradigm of the Industrial Age
14th Int. Flusser Lecture
Donnerstag, 24. Oktober 2002, 19:30 Uhr
Bibliothek/Mediathek, Filzengraben, Köln-Innenstadt
While Walter Benjamin and Marcel Duchamp explored the changing status of the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction before World War II, they became influential only in the last decades of the 20th century. As the exponential growth of information produced, transmitted and received creates new opportunities and pitfalls, Benjamin’s and Duchamp’s lessons — drawn from the industrial age — demands reconsideration at the dawn of the information era.
Jaroslav Andel, art historian, was born in Prague and lives in New York. He works internationally as lecturer, curator, author and editor. His latest publication is Avant-Garde Page Design 1900-1950. New York: Delano Greenidge, 2002. His latest exhibition titles Invention of the Modern Self. The Body, the Psyche and the Spirit, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague.
While Walter Benjamin and Marcel Duchamp explored the changing status of the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction before World War II, they became influential only in the last decades of the 20th century. As the exponential growth of information produced, transmitted and received creates new opportunities and pitfalls, Benjamin’s and Duchamp’s lessons — drawn from the industrial age — demands reconsideration at the dawn of the information era.
Jaroslav Andel, art historian, was born in Prague and lives in New York. He works internationally as lecturer, curator, author and editor. His latest publication is Avant-Garde Page Design 1900-1950. New York: Delano Greenidge, 2002. His latest exhibition titles Invention of the Modern Self. The Body, the Psyche and the Spirit, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague.