Aesthetics in Present Future

The Arts and the Technological Horizon

Edited by Brunella Antomarini and Adam Berg - Contributions by Alain Cohen; Rob Spruijt; Erith Jaffe-Berg; Miltos Manetas; Alessandro Lanni; Roberto Diodato; Domenico Parisi; Teresa Iaria; Peter B. Lunenfeld and Ysamur Flores Pena

Aesthetics 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.

Lexington Books

Pages: 214 • Trim: 6¼ x 9¼

978-0-7391-7373-2 • Hardback • June 2013 • $95.00 • (£73.00)

978-0-7391-7374-9 • eBook • June 2013 • $90.00 • (£69.00)

Subjects: Philosophy / Aesthetics, Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory, Philosophy / Continental Philosophy, Philosophy / Philosophy of Technology

Aesthetics in Present Future

The Arts and the Technological Horizon

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Aesthetics 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.

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Lexington Books

Pages: 214 • Trim: 6¼ x 9¼

978-0-7391-7373-2 • Hardback • June 2013 • $95.00 • (£73.00)

978-0-7391-7374-9 • eBook • June 2013 • $90.00 • (£69.00)

Subjects: Philosophy / Aesthetics, Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory, Philosophy / Continental Philosophy, Philosophy / Philosophy of Technology

Author

Brunella Antomarini teaches aesthetics and phenomenology at John Cabot University, Rome. Her publications include Pensare con l’errore (Codice Edizioni, Torino 2008; English translation, Thinking through error, Lexington Books, 2012), and The Maiden Machine.

Adam Berg is associate professor at Otis College of Art and Design, and teaches aesthetics and critical studies.Adamberg.org. His publications include Conversations with Giordano Bruno and Adam Berg.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
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