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Themesicon: navigation pathAesthetics of the Digital

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Digital Aesthetics: Introduction
icon: authorClaudia Giannetti

The early twentieth century saw the formation in various fields of new theoretical approaches sharing a skeptical attitude towards the fundamental certainties that had profoundly influenced occidental culture and science. Towards the mid-twentieth century concepts like truth, reality, reason and knowledge became central in an intensive contest between rationalism and relativism. [more]more

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Art, Science, and Technology
icon: authorClaudia Giannetti

Art-science-art // The origins of information theory / The constitution of two new disciplines: cybernetics and artificial intelligence / Communication / Information / Feedback /Human-machine communication [more]more
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Cybernetic Aesthetics and Communication
icon: authorClaudia Giannetti

Television emerged and developed along tracks that had already been laid by the established mass media of film and radio. There was scarcely a phase when everything was open, allowing creative investigation to define the medium. In the following, three snapshots will provide examples of the developing relationship between art and television over three decades. [more]more
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Aesthetics and communicative Context
icon: authorClaudia Giannetti

Communication, interaction, and systems / Media art as intercommunicative process / Interactivity: the interface question / Context and environment / Translation / Control / Models of interactive systems / Art-System [more]more
icon: chapterAesthetic Paradigms
Aesthetic Paradigms of Media Art
icon: authorClaudia Giannetti

This essay deals with a broad spectrum of hybrid processes between art and life. Its examination of the concepts underlying Happening, Action and Performance art focuses on the question about the body-about the body along with its media interconnections as a field of both private and public action. [more]more
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Endo-Aesthetics
icon: authorClaudia Giannetti

This essay deals with a broad spectrum of hybrid processes between art and life. Its examination of the concepts underlying Happening, Action and Performance art focuses on the question about the body-about the body along with its media interconnections as a field of both private and public action. [more]more