The engagement aesthetic : experiencing new media art through critique / by Francisco J. Ricardo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ricardo, Francisco J., author.

Series:

International texts in critical media aesthetics ; v. 4.

International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New media art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (402 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Long after painting, sculpture, photography, and film developed 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 have offered new forms for creative expression and experience. In much of this new 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 understanding this new and complex art solely within 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 individual participation, electronic media, virtual and actual space, and mediated language results in a new aesthetic of mutual engagement."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Preface

1. The Engagement Aesthetic - An Introduction

PART I. IMAGE. 2. Engagement as Meta-Reflection - Andrew Neumann's Industrial Wall Panels ; 3. Engagement as Transcendence - The Transmodal Work of Art ; 4. Engagement Across the Aural/Visual - Marclay's Media Metonymy ; 5. Engagement as Post-formal Imagery - Anne Spalter's Scenes from the North Pole of Transcendence ; 6. Engagement in Virtual and Actual Gallery Space ; 7. Engagement from Photographic Object to Statement ; 8. Engagement from Objecthood to Processhood

PART II. SPACE 9. Engagement as Nonlocality - The Aura of the Distributed Moment ; 10. Engagement in Projective Dance Performance ; 11. Engagement as Cathexis - The Affective Index in Video's Depiction of Desire ; 12. Engagement as Spatial Chronotope in Electronic Art and the Public Sphere ; 13. Engagement across Space and Structure in Post-Architecture ; 14. Engagement as Social Spatiality ; 15. Engagement as Participation, Mediated and Recursive

PART III. LANGUAGE. 16. Engagement as Post-Literary Mechanism, an Historical Argument ; 17. Engagement as Post-Literary Mechanism, From Exposition to Reflexivity ; 18. Engagement as Empirical History - Metaprogramming ; 19. Engagement as Comparative Communication - Formalisms of Digital Text ; 20. Engagement across Shifting Beliefs: Shamanism, Turing, and ELIZA.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-228) and index.

ISBN:

9781623561345

1623561345

9781628928365

1628928360

9781623569280

1623569281

9781623569617

1623569613

OCLC:

1194878149