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Oliver Laric鈥檚 ongoing Versions (2009-2012) reflects the conditions of our digital world: how original and copy, thing and thought, event and document, are collapsed in a flattened information space where everything is a click away from everything else. Laric鈥檚 sculptural and online-based practice鈥攊ncluding the website VVork鈥攁ddresses how information networks afford new logical, epistemic, and affective patterns of experience and understanding. Described by the artist as 鈥渁 series of sculptures, airbrushed images of missiles, a talk, a PDF, a song, a novel, a recipe, a play, a dance routine, a feature film and merchandise,鈥� Versions confronts the mutability and variation of images.

Laric鈥檚 work evinces how images and objects are continually modified to represent something new, from Roman copies of Greek sculptures, to doctored and augmented images, remixes, and gifs. The differing versions of Versions themselves address this ongoing history of iconoclasm and copyright. Laric鈥檚 exploration of the nature of images and objects in digital space reveals the internet as not merely a space of representation, but of direct experience, as the real world is increasingly mediated by screens, and knowledge is replaced by searching.