Publisher's Synopsis
This book is based on the 2007 Dialogo di San Giorgio Inheriting the past. Tradition, translation, betrayal, innovation, which explored the relationship between original and copy, and the contribution that new technologies can offer to preserve our cultural heritage, with regards to visual arts, music, ecosystems and texts. Essays by world renowned scholars and artists such as Frederick Brenk, Steven Feld, Carlo Ginzburg, Joseph Koerner, Bruno Latour, Adam Lowe, Pedro Memelsdorff, Richard Powers, Shirley Strum, David Western, Albena Yaneva.
