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This essay studies examples of early video art from a new historical perspective focusing on the co-evolution of live media and present-time consciousness from 1960s onwards. Pioneers’ videotapes and installations appear as the first segments of a non-linear sequence of electronic art practices coping with the postmodern crisis of temporality.
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Roman God Mercury with his caduceus, in his chariot, drawn by cockerels.
Engraving by Carlo Lasinio after Raphael, 1516. Mercury was a messenger who wore winged sandals and a god of trade, thieves, and travel, the son of Maia Maiestas and Jupiter in Roman mythology. His characteristics and mythology were borrowed from the analogous Greek god, Hermes. Mercury has influenced the name of many things in a variety of scientific fields, such as the planet, and the chemical element. The word mercurial is commonly used to refer to something or someone erratic, volatile or unstable, derived from Mercury's swift flights from place to place. He is often depicted holding the Caduceus in his left hand.
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“That which withers in the age of mechanical reproduction is the aura of the work of art. This is a symptomatic process whose significance points beyond the realm of art. One might generalize by saying: the technique of reproduction detaches the reproduced object from the domain of tradition.” - Walter Benjamin
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Victor's way in County Wicklow, Ireland, is a privately owned meditation garden notable for its black granite sculptures. The the park is dedicated to cryptographer Alan Turing. The Fasting Buddha icon-cum-sculpture is a copy of a 1st century AD stone icon (called ‘the ascetic Bodhisattva’) robbed by British archaeologists in the 19th century from an ancient Buddhist pilgrimage site in Taxila, Pakistan. The original, created in the Gandhara Period in Greco-Roman style (note the dramatic, wholly un-Buddhist appearance + the Roman toga + the typically Roman hairdo and beard), is approx. 60 centimetres high and made of Schist stone. It’s on view in Lahore Museum.
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Bill Gates finally tells the truth. Animation
