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Reference: Dickie, George. Art and the Aesthetic. London: Cornell University Press, 1974. p.20:Imitation theory -> deal w/ subj matter, Expression Theory -> deal w/ emotion Art as representational e.g painting, sculpture => imitation theory.. “The imitation theory focused on a readily evident relational property of works of art, namely, art’s relation to subject matter.”...
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p.24: For Lev Manovich….the Internet is an agent of modernisation, enabling participation in global consumer culture. p.139: “media art does not use the computer as a tool but as its subject matter, using a technology to engage in thinking about that technology.” => Like InterVis, technology help to bring the interaction to another stage,...
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Reference: Burnham, Jack “Steps in the Formulation of Real-Time Political Art” in Framing and Being Framed. Koenig, Kasper., eds. New York: New York University Press, 1975. pp.127-143. General System Theory: Haackel he as chosen to define his art in terms o open and closed system, self-regulating, as opposed to run-a-way systems, and hierrachical organization...
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Reference: Manovich, Lev. “Lev Manovich Analyzes the Post-Media Age” ARTMARGINS. 25 Oct. 2001. 23 Jul. 2009 <http://www.artmargins.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=412:lev-manovich-analyzes-the-post-media-age>. TV and Video only justifiy “for treating them as seperate mediums were sociological and economic, such as the differences in the sizes of their respective audiences, the mechanisms of their distribution, anad the number eof copies of...
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Reference: Saether, Susanne Ostby. “Between the Hyperrepresentational and the Real: a sampling sensibility. ” in The State of the Real: Aesthetics in the Digital Age. Sutton, Damian., et al., eds. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2007. pp.48-61. apparent paradox between digitalization (reproduction of media) and the real. => multiple copy e.g photography..”realis aesthetic.” p.49: “reproduction...
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Reference: Steiner, George. After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation. London: Oxford University Press, 1975. p.28: “The schematic model of translation is one in which a message from a source-language passes into a receptor-language via a transformational process. The barrier is the obvious fact that one language differs from the other, that an interpretative...
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Reference: Bollas, Christopher. “The Transformational Object.” Int. J. Psycho-Anal 60 (1979): 97-107. “transformational object…an object that is experientially identified by the infant with the process of the alterration of self experience; an identification that emerges from symbiotic relating.” “Its intensity as an object relation is not due to the fact that the object was...
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Reference: Grau, Oliver (eds). MediaArtHistories. London: The MIT PRESS, 2007. From Film to Interactive Art: Transformations in Media Arts by Ryszard W. Kluszczynski pp. 208-227 p.209: “Those past transformations did not violate the basic determinants of the cinematic apparatus, but rather enriched it by adding several new qualities and modifying certain existing ones.” =>...
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Reference: Foucault, Michel. The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences. New York: Routledge, 1991. p.52: “knowledge ‘is obtained by the comparison of two or more things with each other” Share on Facebook
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Reference: Bateson, Gregory. Steps to an Ecology of Mind. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 1972. p.407- “mapping” => “when a computer is used to simulate a complex communication process.” “Formal process of mapping, translation, or transformation are, in principle, imputed to every step of any sequence of phenomena which the cyberneticist is attempting to...
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