Asking ourselves whether it is possible to live in a virtual world is a question that arises in view of technological and IT progress. What does philosophy tell us about those realities that do not have tangible materiality like ordinary reality, but which nonetheless have tangible effects? Here is the fourth and final episode of this series dedicated to the question of the virtual: what is a virtual artwork ?
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Bibliography
- Albertine Miller,
My Google Search HistoryVolume 1, published by L’air de rien, 2011.
- Albertine Miller,
My Google Search HistoryVolume 2, edited by Matière Primaire, 2016.
- Albertine Meunier, exhibition until January 14, 2013 of volume 3 of My Google Search Historyat the Avant Galerie Vossen.
- Albertine Meunier, website to see her digital artwork, especially the titled series
- Bruno Tacchi,
The work of art in the era of W. Benjamin. history of the aura, The Harmattan, 2000.
- Bruno Tacchi,
A brief introduction to Walter BenjaminThe Harmattan, 2001.
- Bruno Tacchi,
Walter Benjamin, a life in texts. Biographical essayActes Sud, 2009. Roland de Jouvenel Prize of the French Academy 2010.
- Bruno Tacchi,
Walter Benjamin in the age of the digital worldpublished by Kimé, 2022.
- Pierre-Antoine Chardel,
Datalogy. Digital shapes and imaginaries, with Olaf Avenati (director), published by Loco, 2016.
- Pierre-Antoine Chardel,
The signal empire. From writing to screenspublished by CNRS, 2020.
- Pierre-Antoine Chardel,
Connected bodies. Figures, fragments, styles, with Armen Khachaturov, Olaf Avenati and Isabelle Queval (director), Presses des Mines / ESAD de Reims, 2022.
- Pierre-Antoine Chardel,
Socio-philosophy of digital technologiesMining Press, 2022.
sound references
- Beeple’s Archive Reacts to Record Sale of His Digital Artwork ‘Everyday: the First 5,000 Days’ for $69.3 Million on March 11, 2021 at Christie’s
- Archive of Annie Le Brun, “With Philosophy”, France Culture, September 13, 2022
- Reading by Aïda N’Diaye of a piece by Walter Benjamin, The work of art at work of its mechanical reproduction (1936), translated by Jean-Maurice Monnoyer, in W. Benjamin, French WritingsGallimard.
- Song by Beck, Bogert & Appice, “Sweet Sweet Surrender”, 1973
- Archive of Aloïs Jaboulet-Vercherre, 23, co-founder of NFT France, Journal de 20h, France 2, February 6, 2022
- Archive of France Intern Secret d’Info, NFT: New art or new scam?, September 2022
- Archive of Giv Anquetil and Daniel Mermet, with Franck Lepage at the 40th International Contemporary Art Fair, “There if I am there”, France Inter, 2013
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