| L.H.O.O.Q. Links The readymade can be seen as one of the first forays into the world of sampling. In this particular work took an existing postcard of the Mona Lisa, and appropriated it by simply applying some whiskers and "L.H.O.O.Q" below her - which when pronounced in french means "She has a nice arse". " The status of the aura of a work of art is "read" through the traditions associated with its production. Sometimes it can be difficult to determine the precise status of an object. If the object carries within it a signifying field that exposes its means of production then it is that much easier for that objects value to be established. In this sense a painting is easily categorised as art, as it was "painted" and framed, and then hung in a gallery. It is
possible to imagine the production of an object that is identical
in every way to a painting and yet,
if we knew about how and why it was produced, we would have no
problem at all in dismissing its value as art. In the case of new
media art
many of the traditional signifiers that indicate the status of
a thing as art are absent, or have been shifted in some radical manner." (Simon
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