Tag: aesthetics
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What is the Philosophy of Movement? V: Art and Objects
This is a short excerpt on the philosophy of movement from a recent interview I did with Nico Buitendag for Undisciplined Podcast. Nico: I can imagine and I take my hat off to you. So I also want to move on to some of your other work but still within this broader theme. I believe…
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Theory of the Image is now available on audiobook
We live in an age of the mobile image. The world today is absolutely saturated with images of all kinds circulating around the world at an incredible rate. The movement of the image has never been more extraordinary than it is today. This recent kinetic revolution of the image has enormous consequences not only for…
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What is Generative Art?
Art by Gwendal Tsang We live in the age of the digital image not only because of its powerful hybridity and power to order material reality but also because of its powerful pedesis, interactivity, and power to disorder reality—to create new kinesthetic processes. The beauty of contemporary generative art lies not in its “random” number…
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Sigurds Vīdzirkste: A Little-Known Contributor to Cybernetics in New York
While I was giving a talk in New York the other week I had the chance to see a preview of this incredible exhibit on Latvian migrant exile artists working in New York in the 1960s (thanks to Andra Silapetere). I was really struck by the mysterious work of one artists in particular: Sigurds Vīdzirkste.…
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The Nature of Digital Image: A Conversation with Thomas Nail (transcript)
B.A. Gonczarek I’m here with Thomas Nail, the Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver and author of recently published book Theory of the Image, welcome Thomas. I must admit I was really looking forward to our discussion. When preparing to our conversation I did my research online and I was taken by…
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The Nature of Digital Image: A Conversation with Thomas Nail
The nature of digital image A conversation between Thomas Nail, an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver and the author of the recently published book “Theory of the Image,” and B.A. Gonczarek, your host. A philosopher’s perspective on the nature of digital images, their material roots, and various consequences which escape…
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New Materialist Aesthetics and Pedagogy: An Interview with Thomas Nail By Katherine Robert
New Materialist Aesthetics and Pedagogy: An Interview with Thomas Nail By Katherine Robert September 19, 2019 Katherine Robert: You taught an aesthetics course this year and started the first day by saying DU has not taught aesthetics in a long time and it is taught less frequently in US philosophy departments than other areas of…
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A Short History of Aleatory Art
There is a long, albeit minor, tradition in Western art of emphasizing pedesis and feedback to varying degrees. In A Deluge, with a Falling Mountain and Collapsing Town (1515; figure 16.1), for example, Leonardo da Vinci states that he used the appearance of humidity and condensation on windows and walls as an inspiration for painting…
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These Kinetic Sculptures Hypnotize You
These sculptures are so organic and so iterative. They are such a great example of the woven structure of singularities and wholes in nature. Watch the video interview with the artist, Anthony Howe, here.
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The Migrant Image
How can we think of art history as a discipline that moves process-based, performative, and cultural migratory movement to the center of its theoretical and methodical analyses? With contributions from internationally renowned experts, this manual, for the first time, provides answers as to what consequences the interaction of migration and globalization has on research…
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