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Master of Electronic Art
Representation and Presentation
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Digital Aesthetics
Overview According to Weibel the essence of the digital image is not to create reality but to generate images of new reality - more than reality. In this sense the digital image is seen as a liberated image and one which stays open to manipulation. Aesthetics of flux, interchangability, mutablanes - or a rhizomatic aesthetic proposed by Deluze & Guatari, characterise a lot of new media art. There is a movement towards art taking on a life of its own, due to the shift of authorship. As the viewer is turned into a participant and more recently curator, the system aesthetics, which underlies and sets limits on what is consequently possible, needs to be considered.
Primary Reading Weibel, Peter On the History and Aesthetics of the Digital Image in Druckery, T (ed) 1999 Ars Electronica: Facing the future. A Survey of Two Decades , The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts & London, England, p51-65 Broeckmann, Andreas 1996 Towards an Aesthetics of Heterogenesis Munster, Anna 2001 Digitality: Aproximate Aesthetics , ctheory.net
More Blinn, James F 1970 Image Processing: The Future Link , Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Broeckmann, Andreas 2005 Image, Process, Performance, Machine, Aspects of a Mechanic Aesthetics , Refresh! conference, Banff/Canada Kluetsch, Christoph Digital Computer Art
Technoetic Aesthetics: 100 Terms and Definitions for the Post-Biological Era (1996) in Ascott, Roy 2003 Telematic Embrace. Visionary Theories of Art, Technology, and Consciousness , UC Press, Berkeley synopsis Dennis Del Favero, Neil Brown, Jeffrey Shaw, Peter Weibel 2005 T_Visionarium: the aesthetic transcription of televisual databases , in Urusla Frohne and Mona Schieren (Eds) Present, Continuous, Past. Springer, New York, 2005 Manovich, Lev 2001 The Language of New Media , Cambridge Press, London Couchot, Edmond Digital Hybridisation: A Technique, an Aesthetic , Convergence The International Journal of Research into New Media Technology, Special issue: What is Intermedia?, Luton 2002 Murray, Timothy 2000 Digital Incompossibility: Cruising The Aesthetic Haze of the New Media , ctheory.net Munster, Anna 2001 Digitality: Approximate Aesthetics , ctheory.net Kluetsch, Christoph Digital Computer Art Sutherland, Ivan E 1963 Sketchpad-A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System , Proceedings of the Spring Joint Computer Conference, Detroit, Michigan, May 1963 Burgin, Victor 1969 Situational Aesthetics Sondheim, Alan 1991 Video , Perforations 2 Paul Virillo 1991 The Aesthetics of Disappearance , Semiotext(e), synopsis Khatri Himanshu Aquaplay Couchot, Edmond Towards the Autonomous Image , Refresh! Conference Fishwick, Paul A 2006 Aesthetic Computing , MIT Press, synopsis Dunne, Anthony 2006 Hertzian Tales. Electronic Products, Aesthetic Experience, and Critical Design, MIT Press The Electronic as Post-optimal Object DiMarco, Danette & Barta-Smith, Nancy Same Difference: Evolving Conclusions about Textuality and New Media in Hocks, Mary E & Kendrick, Michelle R 2003 Eloquent Images. Word and Image in the Age of New Media , MIT Press Vantage Point & Image-Worlds in Burnett, Ron 2004 How Images Think, MIT Press also ch8 Computer Games and the Aesthetics of Human and Nonhuman Interaction Whitelaw, Mitchell 2004 Metacreation. Art and Artificial Life , MIT Press Hansen, Mark B N 2004 New Philosophy for New Media , MIT Press, synopsis Friedberg, A 2006 The Virtual Window. From Alberti to Microsoft , The MIT Press Chesher, Chris 2002 Why the Digital Computer is Dead , ctheory.net Rombes, Nicholas 2005 The Rebirth of the Author , ctheory Burroughs, W S The Cut-Up Method of Brion Gysin Clark, Tim Computation, Aesthetics and Representation , Refresh! conference |