Notes

1. Walter Benjamin. Illuminations, edited by and with an introduction by Hannah Arendt, trans. Harry Zohn (New York: Schocken Books, 1969), 220.

2. ----. Mariko Mori. (Chicago/London: Museum of Contemporary Art and Serpentine Gallery, 1998), viii.

3. Ibid, 30.

4. Ibid, 4.

5. Ian Knizek. "Walter Benjamin and the Mechanical Reproducibility of Art Works Revisited," British Journal of Aesthetics 33, no. 4 (October 1993): 357.

6. Douglas Crimp. "The Photographic Activity of Postmodernism," October 15 (Winter 1980): 91. Rosalind Krauss, The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1985), 152. Hal Foster, "Postmodernism in Parallax," October 63 (Winter 1993): 5.

7. M. Travis DiNicola. "The Work of Walter Benjamin in the Age of Digital Reproduction," (The Palmer Museum of Art Online).

8. Benjamin, Illuminations, 220.

9. Ibid, 221.

10. Ibid.

11. Bill Nichols. "The Work of Art in the Age of Cybernetic Systems," in Electronic Culture: Technology and Visual Representation, ed Timothy Druckery. (New York: Aperture, 1996), 121.

12. Margot Lovejoy. Postmodern Currents: Art and Artists in the Age of Electronic Media (New York: Prentice Hall, 1997), 154-56.

13. Mori, op cit., 30.

14. ----. Heaven's Gate: Mariko Mori Plays Goddess at the Serpentine, " Time Out (8-15 July 1998): 44.

15. Mori, op cit., 31.