Gallery: 8 Smart Pieces of Art That Ponder the Information Age

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    Lucy Raven's *PR1* uses an old test pattern as the base of this screenprint. *Image: © The artist and Forth Estate*
  • Michel Abeles' ReReReReReReRe is a play on what digital techniques do to traditional imagemaking. Photograph Courtesy of...
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    Michel Abeles' *Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:* is a play on what digital techniques do to traditional image-making. *Photograph: Courtesy of 47 Canal, New York*
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    Tauba Auerbach's *Shift Wave* is an optical illusion of woven cotton twill tape that is pulled over a wooden stretcher. *Image: © Studio of Tauba Auerbach*
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    Robert Gerhardt and Denis Y. Suspitsyn
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    Nick Mauss' *Untitled* is aluminum leaf, acrylic, spray paint, and crayon on plywood. *Image: © Nick Mauss, courtesy 303 Gallery, New York*
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    Robert Gerhardt and Denis Y. Suspitsyn
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    Mauss's *only that* features a complex pattern with simple materials of glaze on ceramic. *Image: © Nick Mauss, courtesy 303 Gallery, New York*
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    Mathew Cerletty, *Quilty*. Oil on linen. *Image: Courtesy of the artist and Algus Greenspon, New York*
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    Seth Price's *Twine* was made by scanning a business card wrapped in a twine bow then printing the image onto the removable iridescent plastic film of an acrylic board. *Image: © Courtesy of the artist and Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York*
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    Robert Gerhardt and Denis Y. Suspitsyn
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    The smudges on Rachel Harrison's Untitled (Perth Amboy) are actually from finger prints on the window. *Image: Rachel Harrison*
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