Aristotle compared the work of art to a living organism and likened artistic production to biological reproduction.
Author: Timothy Binkley, Ph.D.
The Vitality of Digital Creation
The recent emergence and rapid growth of computer technology has transformed “digital image” from a confounding oxymoron to a ubiquitous sine qua non.
Refiguring Culture
The longstanding Platonic dichotomy between ideas and images is being challenged as digital media supersede analog ones and computers take an active role in managing the spectacle.
Piece: Contra Aesthetics
Falling within the subject matter of aesthetics is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for being art.
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Camera Fantasia
A new technology has been born which disinherents photography from its legacy of truth and severs its umbilical cord from the body of past reality.
Medium or Tool?
Actually, the computer is neither when used in the creative process.
Transparent Technology
Digital technology will become increasingly transparent as we develop the interrelationships between mimesis and mathematics first heralded by electronic computers.
The Principle of Expressibilty
The tenet that “Whatever can be meant can be said” belittles poetry as inessential to linguistic communication.
Digital Dilemmas
Digital images are both abstract and concrete. They cannot be understood outside the context of the complete interactive system in which they occur.
On Reading Investigations §43
Philosophy and Phenomenological ResearchVol 31 No 3 (1971)pp. 429-432 (4 pages) Available to print and download on JSTOR. Citations