New Aesthetic
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- i_monk0
The futurist thread reminded me of this thread.
- pr20
Ever so often having spent an hour or so looking at fantastic things collected by this blog or another i keep on thinking that we are living in extraordinary times - never before were humans exposed to so much wonderment as it is now. This overabundance of quality stuff (yes, filtered through the lack of time necessary to make any meaning out of that wonderment) has to have a profound impact on our perception and psyche.
- i_monk0
It's over now, everyone go back to what you were doing.
- utopian0
rambling on and on... all about nothing.
- pr20
Separating images from their original meaning and re-purposing those for ones own needs is definitely a sign of current times.
Take this fund-raising mood trailer we just made:
Half of the shots were direct re-makes of found photographs. But the re-purposing went further - we took actual images (with permission of the artists) and gave new meaning to the images by simply changing their context - all the sudden photographs of tree trunks stand for new planets being born... But it doesn't end there. Some meaningless time lapses and even someone's test of their new slider found its use transcending its original pedestrian origins. None of the above would be possible "back in the days."
- severian0
wankfest
- monospaced0
Immediately reminded me of these "statues" installed along Park Avenue in NYC. These are simple, nearly-FLAT, metal sheet statues with shades painted on them to trick the eye into thinking they're both very 3D and moving contrary to the light source. Even up close they're extremely convincing, right up until you touch them.
- Horp0
"nothing more than the usual need to make something out of nothing... writers with nothing better to do trying to make sense of (codify, identify, what-have-you) a torrent of non-related material"
This is pretty much my job description.
- sublocked0
Wow. Give me a bit to sift through this all. Thanks.
- hansglib0
I've only skimmed through this, but on a quick glance it seems nothing more than the usual need to make something out of nothing... writers with nothing better to do trying to make sense of (codify, identify, what-have-you) a torrent of non-related material .
Technology has enabled/emboldened many more people to "create" stuff, whether it has any artistic merit or not. Some people feel the ensuing tsunami of material needs sorting/classifying (though god knows why - who cares?) and "the new aesthetic" is the name they have come up with.
There is no "new aesthetic" - just new technology. Before instagram (for example), people made marks on paper, some good, some not so good. The thought process is the same, the technology has changed, that's all.
- mydo0
do you think the surrealists or impressionists just sat around in a french coffee shop and gave them selves a name. probably.. job done.
it's a little harder these days. where better to name an art movement than a tumblr account.
- "Impressionist" was a derogatory name given as a joke by some critic that they then adoptedpig
- uan0
the surrealists, yes.
the impressionists, no. that name was given by the critics to that art movement, and with a negative conation at first.
- uan0
and I would compare it the the cubisme, where picasso, gris and braque actually developed a new aesthetic based on african sculpture influence and technology (photography) at that moment in time.
- uan0
but I didn't read the articles...will do when I have some time.
interesting link, thanks for sharing :)
- detritus0
So hold on, I've been neck deep in this movement for my whole emergent life and, in my mindless stupidity, never thought to come up with a label for it?
Ever one to miss a trick.
I just wish I knew exactly what it was I should've made a label for.
- ORAZAL0
I've been following The New Aesthetic tumblr for a while and it has always been nothing more than posts on the new aesthetic (our current one), as hansglib said there has always been and there will always be a new aesthetic.
Now people are getting all Kony 2012 up on that shit.