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Is Anything Original? The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Remediation
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Is Anything Original? The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Remediation

by Ahmed Kabil
May 19, 02017

As PBS Newshour reports, modern-day renaissance workshop Factum Arte preserves art and historical works threatened by war, looting and the passage of time by creating high tech, full-scale reproductions of them. In so doing, the organization is challenging notions of what constitutes an original work of art.

Factum Arte is recreating works of art recently destroyed by ISIS and damaged in the Syrian Civil War. Via Factum Arte.

 

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