Exploding AestheticsToday, many visual artists are giving the cold shoulder to the static, isolated concept of visual art and searching instead for novel, dynamic connections to different image strategies. Because of that, visual art and aesthetics are both forced to reconsider their current positions and their traditional apparatus of concepts. In that process, many questions surface. To mention a few: Could the characteristics of an artistic image and its specific manner of signification be determined in a world which is entirely aesthetisized? What would be the consequences of a variety of image strategies for aesthetic experience? Would it be possible to develop a form of cultural criticism by means of artistic activities in a culture awash in images? In order to answer such questions, aesthetics as a philosophy of art needs to transform its field into a critical philosophy of topical visual culture. As an impetus to such a reinterpretation of the visual working area, the L & B Series organized three symposia evenings under the title "Exploding Aesthetics", in cooperation with De Appel Center for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam. Besides the presentations and discussions from these symposia, this volume includes various arguments, positions, and statements in both articles and interviews by a variety of visual artists, designers, advertising professionals, theorists and curators. The participants are: Mieke Bal, Annette W. Balkema, Peg Brand, Experimental Jetset, Liam Gillick, Jeanne van Heeswijk, Martin Jay, KesselsKramer, Friedrich Kittler, Maria Lind, Wim Michels, Nicholas Mirzoeff, Planet Art, Joke Robaard, Annemieke Roobeek, Remko Scha, Rob Schröder, Henk Slager, Richard Shusterman, Pauline Terreehorst, Wolfgang Welsch and Marie-Lou Witmer. |
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Contents
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Richard Shusterman Aesthetic Experience and Cyborg Interpretation | 27 |
Rob Schröder Aesthetic Sanctuaries | 33 |
Remko Scha Esthetics Technology New Media | 40 |
Orlan and Morimura | 92 |
Pauline Terreehorst Furnishing Realities | 105 |
Mieke Bal Performance and Performativity | 110 |
Nicholas Mirzoeff Intervisuality | 124 |
Wolfgang Welsch Transartistic Theory | 134 |
IMAGE AND DECISION | 137 |
Liam Gillick Distraction Wim Michels Concept Development Process and Decisions | 139 |
Discussion Image and Decision | 149 |
Annette W Balkema Five Scoops | 48 |
Friedrich Kittler Experience in the Era of Information | 59 |
BRAND AND STYLING | 67 |
Joke Robaard Fashionism | 69 |
MarieLou Witmer The Art of Branding | 78 |
Discussion Brand and Styling | 84 |
KesselsKramer Staging Styles | 88 |
Art Architecture Design | 155 |
Henk Slager Differential Iconography | 162 |
Report Das Bild IAA Seminar | 167 |
PlanetArt Guardians of Evolution | 171 |
175_Jeanne van Heeswijk Fleeting Images of Community 179 Martin Jay MetaScopic Regimes | 179 |
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| Title | Exploding Aesthetics Lier & boog studies, ISSN 0925-8191 Volume 16 of Lier en Boog, series of philosophy of art and art theory, volume 16 |
| Editors | Annette W. Balkema, Henk Slager |
| Contributors | Annette W. Balkema, Henk Slager |
| Publisher | Rodopi, 2001 |
| ISBN | 904201315X, 9789042013155 |
| Length | 188 pages |
| Subjects | › Art / Criticism & Theory Philosophy / Aesthetics |
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