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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, …