“From Art as Knowledge to the Aesthetics of the Subject: New Ways of Thinking the Art of the 21st Century” presented by Albuquerque, Oliveira and Torres

Symposium:

• ISEA2010: 16th International Symposium on Electronic Art
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• New Art Theory

• From Art as Knowledge to the Aesthetics of the Subject: New Ways of Thinking the Art of the 21st Century

• Inês Albuquerque
• Rosa Maria Oliveira
• Ricardo Torres

Venue(s):

• Volkshochschule (VHS Dortmund), Dortmund, Germany

• The article proposes the development of a new aesthetic approach to contemporary art produced in or for technological platforms, focussing on interactive art and art as knowledge.

  Art as Knowledge
  The work of art is a trustee of subjective, empirical and emotional information, accessible to those available to fit in the role of receiver and interpreter of that information. Authors such as Claudia Giannetti are working under the perspective of art as knowledge related with new forms of artistic expression rooted in mediatic or technological environments, where the public plays a multiple role: as receiver, as collaborative partner, almost as an artist. Understanding art as knowledge means comprehend the interaction between public and artwork.

  Structuration of the subjective
  One cannot fully analyze art by simply decontextualizing it (Panofsky, 1983; Bourdieu, 1979). It is necessary to take in consideration properly the micro and macro societal aspects, in a perspective ideally resembling that of Simmel’s snapshots, where the ordinary of everyday life is stripped for its given symbolic meaning and relation to the broader symbolic articulations of society.

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