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Bourriaud And The Aesthetics Of Electronic Interaction, Brogan S. Bunt
Bourriaud And The Aesthetics Of Electronic Interaction, Brogan S. Bunt
Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)
Nicolas Bourriaud’s Relational Aesthetics (2002) provides a sophisticated critique of interactive aesthetics. His focus, however, is not literally interactive electronic art, but rather Conceptual Art of the 90s that deliberately reduces technical means and prompts human dialogic interaction. Bourriaud celebrates work that shifts the status of the art object from self-contained aesthetic thing to socially relational model (or field). In his view, technological art, in its very obvious claims to interaction reveals its association and complicity with broader regimes of simulated conviviality and interaction that characterize modern democratic society. It seems that interaction becomes all important in the instant that …
Complexity, Aesthetics And Gentrification: Redfern/Waterlootour Of Beauty, Lucas M. Ihlein
Complexity, Aesthetics And Gentrification: Redfern/Waterlootour Of Beauty, Lucas M. Ihlein
Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)
The question of what kind of city we want cannot be divorced from that of what kind of social ties, relationship to nature, lifestyles, technologies and aesthetic values we desire. The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city. It is, moreover, a common rather than an individual right since this transformation inevitably depends upon the exercise of a collective power to reshape the processes of urbanization. The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, …
Mutable Aesthetics: Emergence In Digital Installation, Su Ballard
Mutable Aesthetics: Emergence In Digital Installation, Su Ballard
Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)
In order to make the claim that the aesthetic specificities of digital art practices are about more than their technologies, this paper contends that the micro- and macrocosmic realms of information theory are applicable and useful in the field of art history. In his introduction to The Digital Dialectic, Peter Lunenfeld presents the impact of the digital on representational media as the recasting of 'everything' as 'digital information.' Consequently, everything can be 'stored, accessed, and controlled by the same equipment' (Lunenfeld 2000, xvi). For Lunenfeld, the digital does not merely represent an aesthetic, or a process, but operates from 'similarity …
Artists And Designers As Collectors: The Aesthetics Of Digital Journaling, Aldegonda Bruekers, Joanne C. Law
Artists And Designers As Collectors: The Aesthetics Of Digital Journaling, Aldegonda Bruekers, Joanne C. Law
Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)
The visual journal has been a constant companion to artists and designers. It fulfills the multiple functions of a scrapbook, a sketchpad, an observation notebook, a filing cabinet and an archive. Collecting ideas and artifacts using digital devices is an important process for artists and designers today. However, the accessibility provided by these tools also leads to problems in traditional visual journaling. The increasingly diverse formats (such as, audio, video, or digital codes) can pose difficulties when working in conjunction with tangible materials. The storage, access, and usage of materials also need to be reconsidered. The key question is not …