Parker Heyl created “Jacob’s Wall”, a digital art shown at Signal Festival 2019 in Prague, Czech Republic.
Parker Heyl cleverly and ingeniously recontextualises the concept of hyperrealism by French sociologist and philosopher Jean Baudrillard, as well as referring to the conception of artistic grounding and the feeling of presence in consuming a work of art in real time, as we know it from Walter Benjamin, the German mass…
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