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Canidae, Rhea Pradeep, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Canidae, Rhea Pradeep, Special Collections, Fleet Library
12th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2026
Entry for the 12th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest. Opening reception and award ceremony Wednesday, February 25, 2026 at 6:30pm, Fleet Library, 1st Floor Main Reading Room. Juror: Gabrielle Reed.
Taiwan Video Club, Nicole Sun, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Taiwan Video Club, Nicole Sun, Special Collections, Fleet Library
12th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2026
Entry for the 12th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest. Opening reception and award ceremony Wednesday, February 25, 2026 at 6:30pm, Fleet Library, 1st Floor Main Reading Room. Juror: Gabrielle Reed.
Working-Class Aesthetics And The Transgressive Chronotope Of Demolition Derby, Billy Williams
Working-Class Aesthetics And The Transgressive Chronotope Of Demolition Derby, Billy Williams
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
In order to understand the deployment of aesthetic experience within a working-class performance, this paper draws on ethnographic field research with participants and fans of demolition derby competitions in two regions of Arkansas. It attempts what Arnold Berleant calls a ‘social aesthetic,’ to discover within semiotic evidence foreclosures of identity that challenge orthodox rationality through an aesthetic parodying of driving and automobility. The paper uses the term ‘material integrity’ to describe how participants and fans of demolition derby understand authorized top-down opinions and the economic dynamics in which they participate. The multiplication of potential vectors of mobility within the frame …
“A Place Of Whites”: The History Of Brazilian Art, Rachel Cecília De Oliveira
“A Place Of Whites”: The History Of Brazilian Art, Rachel Cecília De Oliveira
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
This article examines the racial foundations of art system in Brazil, focusing on how whiteness has shaped aesthetics and art history. Drawing on anthropological analysis, it explores two key dimensions: the spatial and symbolic “place of whiteness” and the mechanisms of cultural and institutional racism. Through these categories, the paper investigates how the histories of non-Western peoples and the artistic production of racialized artists have been systematically marginalized. By revealing their near-total absence from canonical narratives, the article highlights the need for an anti-racist rethinking of Brazilian art history.
Artist / Athlete, Ryan Scott, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artist / Athlete, Ryan Scott, Special Collections, Fleet Library
12th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2026
Entry for the 12th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest. Opening reception and award ceremony Wednesday, February 25, 2026 at 6:30pm, Fleet Library, 1st Floor Main Reading Room. Juror: Gabrielle Reed.
ராமாயணம் (Ramayana), Pallavi Mallik, Special Collections, Fleet Library
ராமாயணம் (Ramayana), Pallavi Mallik, Special Collections, Fleet Library
12th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2026
Entry for the 12th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest. Opening reception and award ceremony Wednesday, February 25, 2026 at 6:30pm, Fleet Library, 1st Floor Main Reading Room. Juror: Gabrielle Reed.
Translucent Dreams, Jeanne Alailima, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Translucent Dreams, Jeanne Alailima, Special Collections, Fleet Library
12th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2026
Entry for the 12th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest. Opening reception and award ceremony Wednesday, February 25, 2026 at 6:30pm, Fleet Library, 1st Floor Main Reading Room. Juror: Gabrielle Reed.
Diagrams Of The Queer Psyche, Robin Goldfarb, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Diagrams Of The Queer Psyche, Robin Goldfarb, Special Collections, Fleet Library
12th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2026
HONORABLE MENTION | $375 Entry for the 12th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest. Opening reception and award ceremony Wednesday, February 25, 2026 at 6:30pm, Fleet Library, 1st Floor Main Reading Room. Juror: Gabrielle Reed.
Monsters Ink. Chapter 3, Jessie Jkanji, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Monsters Ink. Chapter 3, Jessie Jkanji, Special Collections, Fleet Library
12th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2026
Entry for the 12th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest. Opening reception and award ceremony Wednesday, February 25, 2026 at 6:30pm, Fleet Library, 1st Floor Main Reading Room. Juror: Gabrielle Reed.
Techno In Asia, Caleb Wu, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Techno In Asia, Caleb Wu, Special Collections, Fleet Library
12th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2026
Entry for the 12th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest. Opening reception and award ceremony Wednesday, February 25, 2026 at 6:30pm, Fleet Library, 1st Floor Main Reading Room. Juror: Gabrielle Reed.
V.1 Fall 2025, Center For Arts & Language, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives
V.1 Fall 2025, Center For Arts & Language, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives
All Student Newspapers
v.1 is a publishing platform for the ongoing work, ideas, discussions, debates, and aspirations of students at the Rhode Island School of Design. The Fall 2025 issue contains articles on the intersection of the natural world and human experience, technology, identity, immigration, activism, divestment, institutional history, political resistance, decolonization, and the digital vs. physical realms. The issue contains experimental poetry, visual essays, and reflections on the "nature of publication".
Digital Color And Aesthetics: A Numerical Performance That Speaks To Presentness, Valeria Federici
Digital Color And Aesthetics: A Numerical Performance That Speaks To Presentness, Valeria Federici
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
This article is concerned with digital color’s presentness and ubiquity and the implications of these aspects as reflected in contemporary artistic practices and aesthetics. Taking into consideration the history of color theory, the article explores premises and findings relevant to digital color and its differences with natural color as derived by optical vision. Further, it investigates the relationship between computer and artists, between appearance and experience in the digital realm, and highlights how digital color lies in the very nature of the medium: a numerical language hiding behind a mimetic two-dimensional surface or interface. These aspects are discussed through the …
Reflections On Jianrong Liao’S Recent Book, Arnold Berleant’S Environmental Aesthetics And Everyday Aesthetics, Nie Chunhua
Reflections On Jianrong Liao’S Recent Book, Arnold Berleant’S Environmental Aesthetics And Everyday Aesthetics, Nie Chunhua
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
No abstract provided.
On Conversation, Its Modes, Pleasures, And Perils, Stephanie Ross
On Conversation, Its Modes, Pleasures, And Perils, Stephanie Ross
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
My goal is to explore the pleasures and perils of conversation. After acknowledging some insights from speech act theory and pragmatics, I turn to Paul Grice’s account of conversation as cooperative. I offer some proposals about what makes conversants well-suited and their exchanges pleasant and successful, examine conversational style, contrast in-person with online communication, and close by examining some practices that can undermine conversational exchange. I suggest that imbalances of power and the phenomenon of being talked at are especially destructive.
Time And Atmosphere, Mǎdǎlina Diaconu
Time And Atmosphere, Mǎdǎlina Diaconu
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
Phenomenological investigation into atmospheres as spatial feelings has paid little attention thus far to their multifaceted temporality. Ambiances are not only situated but situational; they have an intermittent existence and modify time perception. Certain moods need time to evolve, and prolonged exposure to them may change their character. The passing of time itself generates atmospheres—ages are stereotypically associated with dominant moods, and seasonal rhythms influence well-being. Moreover, ambiances shape epochs and are socially contagious. While the idea that generations can be assigned a prevailing mood is not new, the terms Zeitgeist and Zeitzeichen have been framed by an idealist philosophy …
Dreamscape, Anna Nichamoff, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Dreamscape, Anna Nichamoff, Special Collections, Fleet Library
12th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2026
Entry for the 12th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest. Opening reception and award ceremony Wednesday, February 25, 2026 at 6:30pm, Fleet Library, 1st Floor Main Reading Room. Juror: Gabrielle Reed.
Poetic Lines And Social Thought, Adam Neikirk
Poetic Lines And Social Thought, Adam Neikirk
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
This article draws connections between formal poetry and the capacity to imagine not just the actual world, but any possible world as essentially peopled and peopled with others: both human and nonhuman intelligences. Beginning with an anecdote from the fringes of science, the author goes on to identify the presence of social thought in Romantic literary worlds, citing canonical poems that rely on the recursion of metrical lines such as “Mont Blanc” (Percy Bysshe Shelley) and “Kubla Khan” (Samuel Taylor Coleridge). A theory of poetic lines is then proffered in which poetic invention is related strongly to the idea of …
Context And Form In Garden Classification, David Fenner
Context And Form In Garden Classification, David Fenner
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
Correctly classifying a garden is important because it allows us to appreciate a garden for what it is, create maintenance agendas for gardens, compare gardens to others in appropriate ways, and meaningfully evaluate gardens. We may correctly classify a garden by first deciding on an appropriate taxonomic approach and, second, by fitting gardens into their appropriate taxa. The first is achieved through justifying the organizing schema by ensuring that it significantly meets the goals mentioned above, results in meaningful and satisfying garden appreciation, and is comprehensive in scope—the creation of this taxonomic approach necessarily includes reference to a garden’s context. …
Unwrapping The Cube Visual Essay, Arthur L. Loeb, C. Todd Stewart
Unwrapping The Cube Visual Essay, Arthur L. Loeb, C. Todd Stewart
Loeb Design Science: Documents
A visual and conceptual essay illustrating the many faces and properties of the cube.
The Dream Of Cloth Fish, Rhea Hu, Special Collections, Fleet Library
The Dream Of Cloth Fish, Rhea Hu, Special Collections, Fleet Library
12th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2026
Entry for the 12th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest. Opening reception and award ceremony Wednesday, February 25, 2026 at 6:30pm, Fleet Library, 1st Floor Main Reading Room. Juror: Gabrielle Reed.
Falling, Cindy Li, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Falling, Cindy Li, Special Collections, Fleet Library
12th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2026
Entry for the 12th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest. Opening reception and award ceremony Wednesday, February 25, 2026 at 6:30pm, Fleet Library, 1st Floor Main Reading Room. Juror: Gabrielle Reed.
Introduction, Gioia Laura Iannilli, Ossi Naukkarinen, Enrico Glerean
Introduction, Gioia Laura Iannilli, Ossi Naukkarinen, Enrico Glerean
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
No abstract provided.
Preserving Meaning In An Age Of Algorithms And Ai, David L. Hildebrand
Preserving Meaning In An Age Of Algorithms And Ai, David L. Hildebrand
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
New technologies not only surveil and collect data about us, they also change and alter the way we make or preserve meaning, including aesthetic meaning. Accordingly, the ways we consider, research, and educate aesthetics will have to adapt, at least insofar as it keeps a new range of technological dimensions in mind. To help imagine such dimensions, this paper examines the opportunities and challenges of technologies offering new ways of creating things while also nudging and “hypernudging” our actions. Such developments may initially seem trivial but they are changing our relationships with one another and with ourselves. After a brief, …
Human And Ai Perspectives On Academic Aesthetics, Gioia Laura Iannilli, Ossi Naukkarinen
Human And Ai Perspectives On Academic Aesthetics, Gioia Laura Iannilli, Ossi Naukkarinen
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
The purpose of this article is to examine how current AI tools can be used in aesthetics research and teaching. We focus in particular on one theme: how traditional ways of describing the field of aesthetics as a whole could relate to descriptions made with the help of artificial intelligence. Describing the field and its main questions is unavoidable when we teach and research aesthetics; our question is, how can AI be used for that? Starting from a new meta-aesthetic tripartite model of aesthetics that we introduce, we raise a set of questions to pave the way to a more …
Anticipation And Aesthetics After Automation, Tanya Ravn Ag
Anticipation And Aesthetics After Automation, Tanya Ravn Ag
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
This paper explores generative technology’s ongoing aesthetic evolution through the lens of anticipation. It proposes anticipation as an alternative perspective to automation to understand the implications of generative technology in relation to aesthetic production and evolution. By focusing on anticipation, the discussion shifts from merely considering AI’s impact on aesthetics as instrumental to creative production to examining the anticipative behaviors and affective responses these technologies develop, engage, and cultivate through our interactions with them. Understanding generative technology as anticipatory highlights how deeply human and cultural expectations influence the design, recursive adaptation, and future anticipations of AI systems. Viewing our engagements …
Aesthetics In The Age Of Ai: A Methodological Self-Delineation, Anne Virginia Meindl
Aesthetics In The Age Of Ai: A Methodological Self-Delineation, Anne Virginia Meindl
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
Current debates on AI entering aesthetic practices often take on a normative stance by evaluating the artistic status of AI art. This article seeks to develop a different perspective by referring back to the original descriptive meaning of ‘aisthesis’ and also to the origins of aesthetics as discourse on the senses and art. Introducing a Hegelian understanding of the artistic medium—as formally modeling a certain structure of consciousness rather than just as a neutral means of representation—this article provides a methodological starting point of an aesthetically engaged critique of AI’s implicit subject model. Rather than operating with abstract definitions of …
An Agent Or A Tool? Artificial Intelligence, Heidegger’S Robot And The Ignorant’S Toaster, David Holtgrave
An Agent Or A Tool? Artificial Intelligence, Heidegger’S Robot And The Ignorant’S Toaster, David Holtgrave
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
Be it in art, aesthetics, or anywhere in or beyond academia, artificial intelligence, or AI, often is said to do a lot of stuff formerly done by humans. In this essay, I will argue that this line of thinking is to some extent misleading. On my account, it is still humans that do the same stuff, only by different means. Taking its employment and discussion in the arts as an example, I will set up and discuss what I call the ‘agent view’ of AI and show how, for those cases in which we typically attribute agency to AI, this …
The Mimesis Of Difference: A Deleuzian Study Of Generative Ai In Artistic Production, Jakub Mácha
The Mimesis Of Difference: A Deleuzian Study Of Generative Ai In Artistic Production, Jakub Mácha
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
This study uses the traditional concept of mimesis, reframed by Deleuze as a repetition of difference, to investigate art created by large language models (LLMs) or generative pretrained transformers (GPTs). The current rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is intensifying the mimetic repetition of the different. An AI system repeats carefully selected elements from its extensive training dataset. Rearranging these elements introduces differences in the mimetic repetition. Since the training dataset is updated over longer time frames, it is analogous to a static Platonic universe. Once AI can update its static elements with each repetition, it will become the true Dionysian …
Is Generative Ai In Aesthetics Really New?: The Visualist Perspective, Michalle Gal
Is Generative Ai In Aesthetics Really New?: The Visualist Perspective, Michalle Gal
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
The concept of AI in aesthetics is encountering interest as new algorithmic machines now generate visual works alongside philosophical discourse, sparking both enthusiasm and concern. Yet, this idea has deep roots, reflected in longstanding debates within the discipline. These discussions, which are similar to the new ones, have examined issues like the illusion of an image or object’s ontological stability; the nature of function and user control; distinctions between the natural and artificial, authenticity and forgery; the divide between handmade and mass-produced items; the challenges of readymade and indiscernibility in art; and the potential of ekphrasis. As a result, skepticism …
On Deepfakes And Dog Whistles: Thinking Aesthetically About Generative Ai, Maja Bak Herrie
On Deepfakes And Dog Whistles: Thinking Aesthetically About Generative Ai, Maja Bak Herrie
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
This article focuses on the aesthetic dimensions of contemporary media created with generative AI, challenging traditional dichotomies of truth and falsehood, real and fake. It draws upon diverse examples including Samsung’s “Space Zoom” images of the moon, AI-driven political imagery, and the randomized aesthetics of Google’s Gemini. Additionally, it examines two artistic projects by Elisa Giardina Papa and Trevor Paglen. The article argues for an aesthetic analysis that goes beyond debates over authenticity, highlighting instead the inherent complexity and weirdness of these digital artifacts by exploring how AI reshapes perceptions of reality. By invoking, among other things, theories of agnotology, …