Description
Book SynopsisAesthetics in Present Future: The Arts and the Technological Horizon is a collection of essays by scholars and a few artists who focus on the issue of how arts either change when conveyed by new media (such as the web, 3D printers, and videos) or are simply diffused by them. The contributors' analyses describe how both virtual production and virtual communication change our attitudes toward what we call the arts. The scope of the topics ranges from photography to cinema and painting, from theater to avant-garde art and Net art, and from construction of robots to simulation of brain functions. The result is an astonishing range of new possibilities and risks for the arts, and new perspectives regarding our knowledge of the world.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I: Aesthetics of Future Chapter 1: The Virtual Body Chapter 2: Robots That Have Art Chapter 3: Unimodernism, Or the Aesthetics of Permanent Present Chapter 4: The Kantian philosophy of Twitter Chapter 5: Identifying and Intercting: Notes on the Architecture of the Visual Brain Interlude Mneem Part II: Future of Aesthetics Chapter 6: Aesthetics and Kinesthetics in Performance Chapter 7: Artifice, or a New Nature: Toward a Philosophy of the Automation Chapter 8: Aesthetics and Transcoding. De-Accelerating the Photographic Image Chapter 9: Ruins. Reflections on Aggression and Destruction in Aesthetics Chapter 10: About the “Anything Goes” in Art Chapter 11: The Changing Canvas of the City Bibliography Index About the Authors
