Artifacts (1 of 2)
Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything
Benjamen Walker & Radiotopia
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🗓️ 1 January 2014
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Photographer Robert Burley takes pictures of the end of analog for his book The Disappearance Of Darkness. Christine Frohnert explains how conservators must care for Art with a Plug. Curator Christiane Paul tells us how the Whitney Museum of American Art restored the digital artwork “the world’s first collaborative sentence” by Douglas Davis. And TOE’s Washington D.C. corespondent ‘Chris’ tells us the truth about Edward Snowden and Snapchat.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to Benjamin Walker's Theory of Everything. |
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| 1:27.0 | You are listening to Benjamin Walker's Theory of Everything. This installment is called Artifacts. |
| 1:33.0 | If I had to choose a picture that really kind of sum the project up, |
| 1:37.0 | I think it would be the photograph that I did in Kodak Park in 2007. |
| 1:43.8 | It's a crowd of people that are standing very solemnly |
| 1:47.4 | in front of a cloud of dust because the dynamite's just |
| 1:50.4 | been set off. |
| 1:51.3 | The building has collapsed, and the structures are now gone. The only thing that they can see is the cloud of dust. |
| 1:59.5 | And of course they're all documenting it with digital cameras and cell phones and video |
| 2:03.8 | camps of all sorts. This is wonderful kind of irony. In 2005 the |
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