New Aesthetic
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- fadein110
Great PHD paper. Shelf life - a week
- fadein110
i retract the above statement - interesting
- fadein110
i retract the above statement - interesting
- autoflavour0
the new aesthetic is like the new ipad..
there will be a new one next year
- biusness0
As a newbie, my first impressions –
1) Annoying name
2) It says it's "NOT a movement" but an "investigation/tumblr looking at technologically-enabled novelty in the world". Is this just a high-brow FFFFound/Pinterest then?
3) The tumblr is actually quite interesting, maybe a visit-once-a-week bookmarker.
4) XVideos watercolours, come on, you can't dislike that
- ukit20
I'm skeptical that there will ever be another big overarching movement, things are just too fragmented these days. And people seem less willing to spend time listening to or reading other people's essays.
Having said that, how does Pic of the Day fit in?
- sherm0
too much bla bla bla
make with the animated gifs already
- i_monk0
So... it's tech-augmented or tech-referential (including glitches) design/art?
- mydo0
this guy makes some pretty good points. I'm not sure if i'd invite him to dinner though... the end of the essay is worth a read.
"Our hardware is changing our lives far more profoundly than anything that we ever did to ourselves intentionally. We should heed the obvious there, and get used to that situation. We should befriend one another, under that reality. We should try to see what that means.
People have tried such things before. The Surrealists once valorized the “imagination of the unconscious.” But, as the Situationists pointed out, a generation later: the imagination of the unconscious is impoverished.
Valorizing machine-generated imagery is like valorizing the unconscious mind. Like Surrealist imagery, it is cool, weird, provocative, suggestive, otherworldly, but it is also impoverished.
That’s the big problem, as I see it: the New Aesthetic is trying to hack a modern aesthetic, instead of thinking hard enough and working hard enough to build one. That’s the case so far, anyhow. No reason that the New Aesthetic has to stop where it stands at this moment, after such a promising start. I rather imagine it’s bound to do otherwise. Somebody somewhere will, anyhow."