Exploding Aesthetics

Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-90-420-1325-4
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 188 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 526 g

Reihe: Lier & Boog

Today, 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Balkema, Annette W.

Slager, Henk

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Annette W. BALKEMA and Henk SLAGER: Prologue
PART I: EXPERIENCE AND ECONOMY
Experimental Jetset, Experimental Jetset versus the World
Annemieke ROOBEEK: Searching for Attention and Identity
Discussion: Experience and Economy
Richard SHUSTERMAN: Aesthetic Experience and Cyborg Interpretation
Rob SCHRÖDER: Aesthetic Sanctuaries
Remko SCHA: Esthetics, Technology, New Media
Annette W. BALKEMA: Five Scoops
Friedrich KITTLER: Experience in the Era of Information
PART II: BRAND AND STYLING
Joke ROBAARD: Fashionism
Marie-Lou WITMER: The Art of Branding
Discussion: Brand and Styling
KesselsKramer: Staging Styles
Peg BRAND: Virtual Beauty: Orlan and Morimura
Pauline TERREEHORST: Furnishing Realities
Mieke BAL: Performance and Performativity
Nicholas MIRZOEFF: Intervisuality
Wolfgang WELSCH: Transartistic Theory
PART III: IMAGE AND DECISION
Liam GILLICK: Distraction
Wim MICHELS: Concept Development, Process and Decisions
Discussion: Image and Decision
Maria LIND: On the Edge: Art, Architecture, Design
Henk SLAGER: Differential Iconography
Report, Das Bild (IAA Seminar)
PlanetArt, Guardians of Evolution
Jeanne van HEESWIJK: Fleeting Images of Community
Martin JAY: Meta-Scopic Regimes