中文简介：

20世纪30年代中期，Walter Benjamin提出了艺术与他那个时代的主要表征技术摄影和电影的关系问题。今天，我们回到Benjamin的问题，针对我们这个时代的数字技术，提出同样的问题。Benjamin发现，摄影和电影的媒介已经溶解了艺术的灵性。数字技术已经溶解了“媒介”这个类别本身。Walter Benjamin的文化批评文章《机械复制时代的艺术作品》已经成为一篇“经典”文章，在二十世纪及以后引起共鸣。在这篇简洁而尖锐的新文章中，艺术家兼作家Victor Burgin重读了Benjamin1935年的文章，阐述了一个新的论点，认为今天的相机与那些不可见的东西有着深刻的联系。

英文简介：

In the mid-1930s, Walter Benjamin posed the question of the relation of art to the dominant representational technology of his time: photography and film. To return to the artwork essay today in the spirit in which it was written is to ask the same question in respect of the hegemonic representational technology of our own time: the digital. Benjamin found that the medium of photography and film had dissolved the auratic quality of art. Digital technology has dissolved the very category of 'medium' itself.' Walter Benjamin's essay of cultural criticism 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' has become a 'classic' text, one which resonated through the twentieth century and beyond. In this succinct and pointed new essay, the artist and writer Victor Burgin rereads Benjamin's 1935 text, to elaborate a new argument contending that the camera today is profoundly imbricated in that which is not visible.