Appropriation as Alchemy in New Media: A Case Study.
Historically alchemists were concerned with the search or a lapis, the Philosopher's Stone, able to transmute lead into gold. A similar transformational process takes place digitally in the work of new media artists, whose computers and code are the equivalent of the philosopher's stone, becoming ag...
| Publicado en: | Ekphrasis (2067-631X) Vol. 10; no. 2; pp. 180 - 197 |
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Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of Theatre & Television
2013
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