Seth Price is a New York-based post-conceptual artist whose multidisciplinary practice explores digital technology influences on art, art's meaning, and the artist's shifting role in society. By applying some of the means provided by the digital, Price questions the shift in the way art is seen, consumed, and mediated. Working across a wide aerie of media such as sculpture, installation, film, photography, drawing, painting, video, web design, music, sound or poetry, the roots of his practice are tied to the concept of collage, as in appropriating and layering content, where the final image becomes reminiscent of a digital stream.

- Double Hunt, 2006
, and - Animal Arrows, 2006
, are two similar sculpture that take as their point of departure an appropriated image from the caves of Lascaux, France. Dated between 15 000 and 13 000BC, the cave painting is officially the oldest European art piece. To protect the real cave, the French government build a simulacrum of the original in order for tourists to experience the painting without damaging the original site. The appropriated images downloaded by Price from the internet points to the precarious relationship between copy and original in the digital world, where copy becomes more accessible and circulated. The cylindric works shape, made of transparent PVC, shows printed horses in monochromatic vibrant green. - Double Hunt
refers to pre-cinematic motion pictures studies of Eadweard Muybridge and his iconic series of trotting horses, while the surface of the work, refers to celluloid, the core of the film medium, and the circular movement of the image resemble the effect of a loop and point to circulation within the digital. Animal Arrows, uses the reproduction of the painting's replica, painted by Monique Pétral in the early 1980's when the new tourist site was built.

Both works investigate how meaning and value of cultural and commodity products are generated and circulated in the information system.

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