Wap is not Wasp or Daisy is Dead < Under construction...but readable > Digital images are unlinked to the support. Save it in another format. The same content is given to see different. But it is always a bench of bytes and this denotes intelligence, implies the possibility of adding information to pixels. In this sense, we can say that the picture now is made of information, does not transmit anymore. Its documentary function is over because there is not any difference between the original and the copy. Images had left their imago>imitare condition. They suppressed their etimologic essence. They became second-hand originals. No? So, what's the difference between what u keep in your HD, floppy disks, CDs or zip? None. They are identical resetting of the same informative code. But they are not identical for the experience and this is the fascinating of the clone logic. Its possibility of being identical being different. However, something is disturbing... They are as those of Wop Art. Made to be seen on the move, in moblie phones and PDAs, in accordance to entropy and acceleration logic. And also according to a lack of logic of the market, which makes what it is seen a resultant of the pattern and quality of the monitor, of connection speed, browser... Therefore, those images cannot enjoy the same status of the icon. Nothing assures its visual unit, that kind of unity that allowed to Mallarmé revolutionize poetry, trusting the materiality of the page. From there the perplexity: Concrete poetry and op art do not have place anymore? And what is pop art in a global culture, which means SEGMENTED culture, where there is not universality of the sign? Are we under Unamuno's law? " I am myself and my circumstances." Art lost its contemplative function and this makes all the difference. Wasp culture crackled. Daisy died. Nick is over. There is no green light blinking over there, but an orgiastic present.
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