Tag: Art
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ArtsLink Assembly 2019: Global Warning – Artists and the Anthropocene
I will be speaking at ArtsLink, along with others, at CUNY Nov. 13th on migration, art, and the Anthropocene.
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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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The Selected Writings of Pierre Hadot, translated by Matthew Sharpe and Federico Testa, Bloomsbury, 2019
Congratulations to Matthew and Federico on this incredible book! I can’t wait to read it. This collection of writings from Pierre Hadot (1992-2010) presents, for the first time, previously unreleased and in some cases untranslated materials from…
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Climate, Capitalism, Control (Video by Ian Alan Paul)
Watch it here. The work aims to diagram the conjunctive power of planetary-scale computation, commodification, and climate change, and begins with the following voice-over: “Dispersed across the surface of Earth, computer clusters electronically hum in vast air-conditioned rooms. One models sea level rises, precipitation rates, temperature increases, and property values in coastal metropolises over the…
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The Super Zoom Down to Quantum Gravity (Watch)
CG animation of amazing zoom to macro view to the “quantum world”, shown on an approximate scale of the reality of physics. (Thanks to Chris Gamble for this one)
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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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Theory of the Image (explained)
Bartosz Gonczarek at “Everything Explained” has put together a wonderful visual whiteboard of great quotes from Theory of the Image that I think hit some very important summary highlights from the book, especially Part III on the digital image. View it here.
The Philosophy of Movement 