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*
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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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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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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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The smudges on Rachel Harrison's Untitled (Perth Amboy) are actually from finger prints on the window. *Image: Rachel Harrison*
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