The work, visually arresting and hard to access directly, found a second life on social media, where posting a photo or video clip amounted to both a promulgation of the artwork and a brag at having seen it.
Claire Bishop argues that our smartphone-induced state of distraction can also be generative, making the artwork "less self-important, less total; it grants us the space to be mobile and social, to react, chat, share, and archive as we watch."
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