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The New Aesthetic and Art: Constellations of the Postdigital, 2016

The New Aesthetic and Art: Constellations of the Postdigital is an interdisciplinary analysis foc... more The New Aesthetic and Art: Constellations of the Postdigital is an interdisciplinary analysis focusing on new digital phenomena at the intersections of theory and contemporary art. Asserting the unique character of New Aesthetic objects, Contreras-Koterbay and Mirocha trace the origins of the New Aesthetic in visual arts, design, and software, find its presence resonating in various kinds of digital imagery, and track its agency in everyday effects of the intertwined physical world and the digital realm. Contreras-Koterbay and Mirocha bring to light an original perspective that identifies an autonomous quality in common digital objects and examples of art that are increasingly an important influence for today’s culture and society.
Influenced by a diverse range of figures, ranging from Vilém Flusser, Arthur Schopenhauer, Immanuel Kant, David Berry, Lev Manovich, Olga Goriunova, Ernst Mayr, Bruce Sterling and, of course, James Bridle, The New Aesthetic and Art: Constellations of the Postdigital doesn’t just propose a description of a new set of objects but radically asserts that New Aesthetic objects analogously function as organisms within a broader digital-physical ecosystems of things and agents.

Papers by Scott Contreras-Koterbay

Preface...iii Introduction...1 Part One: The Necessary Grounds for Art Chapter One The Self in Fi... more Preface...iii Introduction...1 Part One: The Necessary Grounds for Art Chapter One The Self in Fichte and Kierkegaard...11 Chapter Two Contradiction and Dialectics Existence and Actuality...21 Chapter Three Object and Subject...33 Chapter Four Repetition, Redoubling, and Reduplication...47 Chapter Five Direct and Indirect Communication...65 Part Two: Artist, Art Object, and the Death of Art Chapter Six The Actuality of the Artist as an Individual...85 Chapter Seven Approaches to a Kierkegaardian Aesthetics...169 Chapter Eight The Art Object...219 Chapter Nine Conclusion: The Death of Art...279 Abbreviations...307 Bibliography...311 Index...321

... people power,” as it is termed in the Philippines, is the deployment and denial of a ... the ... more ... people power,” as it is termed in the Philippines, is the deployment and denial of a ... the “loss” of the “colonies” in the par-ticularly vital contexts of emergent US imperialism, present ... be challenged as Phil-ippine contemporary art rethinks the terms with which colonialism is made ...

... Page 4. Page 5. QUOTING CARAVAGGIO Contemporary Art, Preposterous History Mieke Bal As period... more ... Page 4. Page 5. QUOTING CARAVAGGIO Contemporary Art, Preposterous History Mieke Bal As period, as style, as sensibility, the Baroque remains elu-sive, its definition subject to dispute. ... paper) 1. Art, Modern—2oth century—Themes, motives. 2. Art, Baroque— intluence. ...

Central European History, 1994

The artist discusses the concept, imagery, and research influences behind a body of work entitled... more The artist discusses the concept, imagery, and research influences behind a body of work entitled What We Give, for the completion of her Bachelor of Arts Degree and undergraduate research for the Fine and Performing Arts Scholars branch of East Tennessee State University’s Honors College. The artist used this body of work to explore her personal relationships with the ocean, Aspergers, and information. Particularly, the artist’s pseudo-mystic beliefs about the ocean, her frustrations with her life struggles, and fascinations with scientific facts and libation vessels are discussed. Dysfunctionality is cited as the driving force behind the thought process of the project. Her work includes two sculptural vessels, rendered in ceramics and painted with house paint. The artist cites gastropod shells, ancient libation vessels, and contemporary artists

The New Aesthetic and Art: Constellations of the Postdigital is an interdisciplinary analysis foc... more The New Aesthetic and Art: Constellations of the Postdigital is an interdisciplinary analysis focusing on new digital phenomena at the intersections of theory and contemporary art. Asserting the unique character of New Aesthetic objects, Contreras-Koterbay and Mirocha trace the origins of the New Aesthetic in visual arts, design, and software, find its presence resonating in various kinds of digital imagery, and track its agency in everyday effects of the intertwined physical world and the digital realm. Contreras-Koterbay and Mirocha bring to light an original perspective that identifies an autonomous quality in common digital objects and examples of art that are increasingly an important influence for today’s culture and society. Influenced by a diverse range of figures, ranging from Vilem Flusser, Arthur Schopenhauer, Immanuel Kant, David Berry, Lev Manovich, Olga Goriunova, Ernst Mayr, Bruce Sterling and, of course, James Bridle, The New Aesthetic and Art: Constellations of the Postdigital doesn’t just propose a description of a new set of objects but radically asserts that New Aesthetic objects analogously function as organisms within a broader digital-physical ecosystems of things and agents.

The New Aesthetic and Art: Constellations of the Postdigital is an interdisciplinary analysis foc... more The New Aesthetic and Art: Constellations of the Postdigital is an interdisciplinary analysis focusing on new digital phenomena at the intersections of theory and contemporary art. Asserting the unique character of New Aesthetic objects, Contreras-Koterbay and Mirocha trace the origins of the New Aesthetic in visual arts, design, and software, find its presence resonating in various kinds of digital imagery, and track its agency in everyday effects of the intertwined physical world and the digital realm. Contreras-Koterbay and Mirocha bring to light an original perspective that identifies an autonomous quality in common digital objects and examples of art that are increasingly an important influence for today’s culture and society. Influenced by a diverse range of figures, ranging from Vilem Flusser, Arthur Schopenhauer, Immanuel Kant, David Berry, Lev Manovich, Olga Goriunova, Ernst Mayr, Bruce Sterling and, of course, James Bridle, The New Aesthetic and Art: Constellations of the ...

AM Journal of Art and Media Studies

If aesthetic and teleological judgments are equally reflective, then it can be argued that such j... more If aesthetic and teleological judgments are equally reflective, then it can be argued that such judgments can be applied concurrently to digital objects, specifically those that are products of the rapidly developing sophisticated forms of artificial intelligence (AI). Evidence of the aesthetic effects of technological development are observable in more than just experienceable objects; rooted in inscrutable machine learning, AI’s complexity is a problem when it is presented as an aesthetic authority, particularly when it comes to automated curatorial practice or as a progressively determinative aesthetic force originating in an independent agency that is internally self-consistent.Rooted in theories of the post-digital and the New Aesthetic, this paper examines emerging new forms of art and aesthetic experiences that appear to reveal these capabilities of AI. While the most advanced forms of AI barely qualify for a ‘soft’ description at this point, it appears inevitable that a ‘har...

BRITISH JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS, 1995

The New Aesthetic and Art: Constellations of the Postdigital, 2016

The New Aesthetic and Art: Constellations of the Postdigital is an interdisciplinary analysis foc... more The New Aesthetic and Art: Constellations of the Postdigital is an interdisciplinary analysis focusing on new digital phenomena at the intersections of theory and contemporary art. Asserting the unique character of New Aesthetic objects, Contreras-Koterbay and Mirocha trace the origins of the New Aesthetic in visual arts, design, and software, find its presence resonating in various kinds of digital imagery, and track its agency in everyday effects of the intertwined physical world and the digital realm. Contreras-Koterbay and Mirocha bring to light an original perspective that identifies an autonomous quality in common digital objects and examples of art that are increasingly an important influence for today’s culture and society.
Influenced by a diverse range of figures, ranging from Vilém Flusser, Arthur Schopenhauer, Immanuel Kant, David Berry, Lev Manovich, Olga Goriunova, Ernst Mayr, Bruce Sterling and, of course, James Bridle, The New Aesthetic and Art: Constellations of the Postdigital doesn’t just propose a description of a new set of objects but radically asserts that New Aesthetic objects analogously function as organisms within a broader digital-physical ecosystems of things and agents.

Preface...iii Introduction...1 Part One: The Necessary Grounds for Art Chapter One The Self in Fi... more Preface...iii Introduction...1 Part One: The Necessary Grounds for Art Chapter One The Self in Fichte and Kierkegaard...11 Chapter Two Contradiction and Dialectics Existence and Actuality...21 Chapter Three Object and Subject...33 Chapter Four Repetition, Redoubling, and Reduplication...47 Chapter Five Direct and Indirect Communication...65 Part Two: Artist, Art Object, and the Death of Art Chapter Six The Actuality of the Artist as an Individual...85 Chapter Seven Approaches to a Kierkegaardian Aesthetics...169 Chapter Eight The Art Object...219 Chapter Nine Conclusion: The Death of Art...279 Abbreviations...307 Bibliography...311 Index...321

... people power,” as it is termed in the Philippines, is the deployment and denial of a ... the ... more ... people power,” as it is termed in the Philippines, is the deployment and denial of a ... the “loss” of the “colonies” in the par-ticularly vital contexts of emergent US imperialism, present ... be challenged as Phil-ippine contemporary art rethinks the terms with which colonialism is made ...

... Page 4. Page 5. QUOTING CARAVAGGIO Contemporary Art, Preposterous History Mieke Bal As period... more ... Page 4. Page 5. QUOTING CARAVAGGIO Contemporary Art, Preposterous History Mieke Bal As period, as style, as sensibility, the Baroque remains elu-sive, its definition subject to dispute. ... paper) 1. Art, Modern—2oth century—Themes, motives. 2. Art, Baroque— intluence. ...

Central European History, 1994

The artist discusses the concept, imagery, and research influences behind a body of work entitled... more The artist discusses the concept, imagery, and research influences behind a body of work entitled What We Give, for the completion of her Bachelor of Arts Degree and undergraduate research for the Fine and Performing Arts Scholars branch of East Tennessee State University’s Honors College. The artist used this body of work to explore her personal relationships with the ocean, Aspergers, and information. Particularly, the artist’s pseudo-mystic beliefs about the ocean, her frustrations with her life struggles, and fascinations with scientific facts and libation vessels are discussed. Dysfunctionality is cited as the driving force behind the thought process of the project. Her work includes two sculptural vessels, rendered in ceramics and painted with house paint. The artist cites gastropod shells, ancient libation vessels, and contemporary artists

The New Aesthetic and Art: Constellations of the Postdigital is an interdisciplinary analysis foc... more The New Aesthetic and Art: Constellations of the Postdigital is an interdisciplinary analysis focusing on new digital phenomena at the intersections of theory and contemporary art. Asserting the unique character of New Aesthetic objects, Contreras-Koterbay and Mirocha trace the origins of the New Aesthetic in visual arts, design, and software, find its presence resonating in various kinds of digital imagery, and track its agency in everyday effects of the intertwined physical world and the digital realm. Contreras-Koterbay and Mirocha bring to light an original perspective that identifies an autonomous quality in common digital objects and examples of art that are increasingly an important influence for today’s culture and society. Influenced by a diverse range of figures, ranging from Vilem Flusser, Arthur Schopenhauer, Immanuel Kant, David Berry, Lev Manovich, Olga Goriunova, Ernst Mayr, Bruce Sterling and, of course, James Bridle, The New Aesthetic and Art: Constellations of the Postdigital doesn’t just propose a description of a new set of objects but radically asserts that New Aesthetic objects analogously function as organisms within a broader digital-physical ecosystems of things and agents.

The New Aesthetic and Art: Constellations of the Postdigital is an interdisciplinary analysis foc... more The New Aesthetic and Art: Constellations of the Postdigital is an interdisciplinary analysis focusing on new digital phenomena at the intersections of theory and contemporary art. Asserting the unique character of New Aesthetic objects, Contreras-Koterbay and Mirocha trace the origins of the New Aesthetic in visual arts, design, and software, find its presence resonating in various kinds of digital imagery, and track its agency in everyday effects of the intertwined physical world and the digital realm. Contreras-Koterbay and Mirocha bring to light an original perspective that identifies an autonomous quality in common digital objects and examples of art that are increasingly an important influence for today’s culture and society. Influenced by a diverse range of figures, ranging from Vilem Flusser, Arthur Schopenhauer, Immanuel Kant, David Berry, Lev Manovich, Olga Goriunova, Ernst Mayr, Bruce Sterling and, of course, James Bridle, The New Aesthetic and Art: Constellations of the ...

AM Journal of Art and Media Studies

If aesthetic and teleological judgments are equally reflective, then it can be argued that such j... more If aesthetic and teleological judgments are equally reflective, then it can be argued that such judgments can be applied concurrently to digital objects, specifically those that are products of the rapidly developing sophisticated forms of artificial intelligence (AI). Evidence of the aesthetic effects of technological development are observable in more than just experienceable objects; rooted in inscrutable machine learning, AI’s complexity is a problem when it is presented as an aesthetic authority, particularly when it comes to automated curatorial practice or as a progressively determinative aesthetic force originating in an independent agency that is internally self-consistent.Rooted in theories of the post-digital and the New Aesthetic, this paper examines emerging new forms of art and aesthetic experiences that appear to reveal these capabilities of AI. While the most advanced forms of AI barely qualify for a ‘soft’ description at this point, it appears inevitable that a ‘har...

BRITISH JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS, 1995