ART + SOCIAL MEDIA
“Much of the most exciting new work in this domain is done by young women.”
ver eighty years ago, the philosopher Walter Benjamin proposed that while works of art have always, in principle, been reproducible, ‘mechanical reproduction of a work of art … represents something new’. Benjamin celebrated the potential that the technological reproduction of artworks has to put art together with mass audiences in new and politically powerful ways. Benjamin’s notion of mechanical reproduction rescued art from the ivory tower of
