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In our last two installments of the history of technology in modern art, we took a look at some of the radical developments in the media used by artists. With an art-making culture that was becoming at ease with technological interventions, artists began to explore even newer modes of expression, experimenting with the now-ubiquitous digital culture of the Internet and video games. From the ...

You know how when you repeat a word over and over it eventually begins to lose its meaning and sound like a foreign language? Or how a photocopy of a photocopy loses its details, until all that's left is abstract blobs of toner? Repetition and reproduction have been a key concern for many artists and theorists, from Walter Benjamin's seminal 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' ...