“Once or twice in every century, it seems, there is something that arrives which changes things.” So said Daniel Birnbaum, who leads the Royal College of Art’s course on virtual and augmented reality and AI, in The Telegraph last year. “Photography changed not just the distribution possibilities of art, but actually the ontology of what an art piece can be,” Birnbaum continued. “Right now, it’s similar to when the video camera arrived – or even moving film. It’s a transformation of that scale.”
