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Tag: AESTHETICS

The Quickening of Galatea

Posted on November 27, 2023December 5, 2023 by Timothy Binkley, Ph.D.

Aristotle compared the work of art to a living organism and likened artistic production to biological reproduction.

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The Vitality of Digital Creation

Posted on November 26, 2023December 5, 2023 by Timothy Binkley, Ph.D.

The recent emergence and rapid growth of computer technology has transformed “digital image” from a confounding oxymoron to a ubiquitous sine qua non.

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Refiguring Culture

Posted on November 26, 2023December 5, 2023 by Timothy Binkley, Ph.D.

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.

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Piece: Contra Aesthetics

Posted on November 26, 2023November 28, 2023 by Timothy Binkley, Ph.D.

Falling within the subject matter of aesthetics is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for being art.
Document complet disponible en français.

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On the Truth and Probity of Metaphor

Posted on November 26, 2023November 30, 2023 by Timothy Binkley, Ph.D.

Rightfully understood, metaphor proves itself capable of as simple and straightforward a truth as literal language.

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The Wizard of Ethereal Pictures and Virtual Places

Posted on November 26, 2023December 5, 2023 by Timothy Binkley, Ph.D.

Postmodern algorithms for picture-making are more evanescent than their Renaissance counterparts because computers process information conceptually instead of physically.

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Sublime Art

Posted on November 19, 2023November 20, 2023 by Timothy Binkley, Ph.D.

Neither the landscape nor its “abstraction” in Modern art is genuinely sublime. We must look instead to the development of Literalism to find the sublime expressed in art.

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Encyclopedia of Aesthetics – Computer Art (Definition)

Posted on November 1, 2023December 11, 2023 by Timothy Binkley, Ph.D.

Instead of making things, the computer manipulates data. The import of this difference can be summed up with two related concepts: virtuality and interactivity.

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Warranting Metaphor

Posted on October 27, 2023November 7, 2023 by Timothy Binkley, Ph.D.

We cannot tell whether a sentence is true or false until we know whether it is used literally or metaphorically.

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Real and Pretend

Posted on October 6, 2023November 30, 2023 by Timothy Binkley, Ph.D.

Pretence might be deceptive, cloakng uncomfortable truths with misleading lies. But it may instead be performative, divulging profound truths through exhilarating art.

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