Painting in the Era of Digital Reproducibility
Andrew Benjamin
Wednesday 30 April 2008 @ 6pm
Room 327 Webster Building UNSW Anzac Parade Kensington 2052
It is no longer sufficient to locate painting as occurring after photography. Image production, and thus the demands of how to understand the concepts and categories proper to the image's interpretation, has altered significantly in the move from the era of technical reproducibility‚ to one that is now defined by digital reproducibility. How does painting stage an affirmed relation to that move? In addition, how within a concern with painting is that move to be understood?
The lecture will suggest answers to these questions. The lecture will be orientated around the work of Jess MacNeil.
Professor Andrew Benjamin FAHA is Professor of Critical Theory and Philosophical Aesthetics in the
Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Monash University. His most recent book is Style and Time (Northwestern University Press. 2006)
Image:
Jess MacNeil, Videographic Painting : Paris Violet Blue and
Videographic Painting : Paris Magenta, 2007, oil, watercolour and
graphite on canvas, diptych, 150 x 90 cm each, courtesy the artist
and Gallery Barry Keldoulis
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