Exploding Aesthetics / / edited by Annette W. Balkema, Henk Slager.

• Superior document: Lier & Boog ; 16
• TeilnehmendeR: Balkema, Annette W.,; Slager, Henk,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2001.
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Series: Lier & Boog ; 16.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (190 pages)

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.

Table of Contents

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.