Monday, November 1, 2010


As this modern age, the advancing power of communication and material sharing had made real object become more and more hyper-real. In example, the picture to the left show the famous art work by Leonardo Da Vinci the Mona Lisa, could be said that Leonardo Da Vinci is going digital. As you can see the picture is of Da Vinci famous masterpiece but is it? Nowadays everyone see this picture will say it is the Mona Lisa, But it just simply not, This object to your left if nothing but a binary sequence of computer language that been stringed together so that to through the right program you could see what appears to be the Mona Lisa. Replicas of this art work had pops up at every nook and corner of the earth, everyone see this will recognize this infamous artwork. However what we all see is a copy of copies through many generations of copies or
simply put it, it is nothing ore then a simulacra an object in which Jean Baudrillard states “The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth - it is the truth which conceals that there is none.” As to put in question, how many of us have seen the Mona Lisa in person? Yes some of us might say that they have seen it in Le Louvre but how could anyone guaranty that what they seen is the original work that painted by Leonardo Da Vinci himself instead of yet just another copy in-display for the sake of protecting the original? This work is just one of many example of the simulacrum world that we living in, where the original, the real had been taken over by simulacra and hyper-real due to the advancing of technology or in plain words the Internet.

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