English
First of all, something redundant: expounding transmission. The metasystem of art (critique, art history and aesthetics) presents us with the work’s essence as grasped through the media. But “art” and “transmission” are not connected that obviously. Hence three obstacles appear — the hegemony of the work’s “self-reflexive” mode, the appearance of media overexposure, and the prevalence of “devices” — and the exhibition Transmission wagers it can avoid all of them.