The Engagement Aesthetic Experiencing New Media Art Through Critique

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Long after painting, sculpture, photography, and film adult along with their materials - canvas and panel, marble and bronze, and celluloid film - a new generation of art has emerged in which digital, electronic, architectural, and performative materials take offered new forms for creative expression and experience. In much of this new fine art, the medium - no longer composed of passive materials - now embraces and challenges viewers to work as co-creators of aesthetic experience.

Starting from the impossibility of agreement this new and complex fine art solely inside the framework of contemporary art history and criticism, The Engagement Aesthetic offers new modes of critique for new media works of art, literature, and performance that operate in complex ways. Blending a range of methodologies from phenomenology, art history, linguistics, and statistical analysis, Ricardo explores how a new kinship between private participation, electronic media, virtual and actual space, and mediated linguistic communication results in a new aesthetic of mutual engagement.

Table of Contents

Preface
one. The Engagement Artful - An Introduction
Role I. Prototype
ii. Engagement equally Meta-Reflection -- Andrew Neumann's Industrial Wall Panels
3. Date equally Transcendence -- The Transmodal Piece of work of Art
4. Engagement Across the Aural/Visual - Marclay's Media Metonymy
5. Engagement every bit Post-formal Imagery -- Anne Spalter's Scenes from the Due north Pole of Transcendence
6. Date in Virtual and Actual Gallery Space
7. Engagement from Photographic Object to Statement
8. Engagement from Objecthood to Processhood
Function II. SPACE
9. Engagement as Nonlocality -- The Aura of the Distributed Moment
10. Engagement in Projective Dance Performance
11. Appointment as Cathexis -- The Affective Index in Video's Depiction of Want
12. Engagement as Spatial Chronotope in Electronic Art and the Public Sphere
13. Engagement across Space and Structure in Post-Compages
14. Date as Social Spatiality
15. Engagement as Participation, Mediated and Recursive
PART Three. Linguistic communication
16. Date every bit Mail-Literary Mechanism, an Historical Statement
17. Engagement equally Mail service-Literary Mechanism, From Exposition to Reflexivity
18. Date equally Empirical History -- Metaprogramming
19. Appointment as Comparative Communication -- Formalisms of Digital Text
20. Engagement across Shifting Beliefs: Shamanism, Turing, and ELIZA

Production details

Published	May 23 2013
Format	Paperback
Edition	1st
Extent	256
ISBN	9781623560409
Imprint	Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations	122
Dimensions	nine ten half-dozen inches
Series	International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

• The Engagement Aesthetic makes it clear: the importance of new media art resides not in its unique forms and strategies, but in the ways it activates new modes of critique and perception. Theorizing a medium is long work. (Theorists chased after cinema for decades, and continue to do so today.) New media art presents special challenges: its history is short, its forms are diverse, and newer technologies appear regularly, replacing the old. Cleverly, Francisco J. Ricardo overcomes these obstacles by focusing on the relationship between viewer and artwork--an appointment--that is specific to electronic art. With a view to art history and philosophy, the book examines exciting contempo artwork (digital installation, operation, sound, text), revealing a phenomenology of the experience of digital art. This exploration will exist useful to scholars, students, and artists. The Appointment Aesthetic asks 'Why is new media art different?' Ricardo'southward great accomplishment is to pose the question in a manner that is insightful, far-reaching, and both timely and timeless.

  Kurt Ralske, Offshoot Faculty, MFA Digita + Media, Rhode Island School of Blueprint, US

• Ricardo presents a thoroughly considered and novel approach to understanding and appreciating new media art in an expanded field of aesthetic theory. Without throwing away the evaluative function of aesthetics, Ricardo proposes a refocusing of its purpose toward an enacted procedure of perception, operation, contemplation and critique. He relates this model to the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty and exercises it through discussions of media product across art, everyday, and entertainment domains. The consequence is a highly compelling and provocative theoretical framework for linking the old and the new in an emerging field of disquisitional aesthetic discourse.

  Dr. Teri Rueb, Professor, Department of Media Report, University at Buffalo (State Academy of New York), US

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