(in)Tangible Now : Phenomenal Aesthetics & The Post-Representational Subject

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(in)Tangible Now : Phenomenal Aesthetics & The Post-Representational Subject by Stephanie Owens Mind Map: (in)Tangible Now : Phenomenal Aesthetics & The Post-Representational Subject

Mind Map: (in)Tangible Now : Phenomenal Aesthetics & The Post-Representational Subject

1. Listening Post (Ben Rubin, Mark Hansen (2002)

2. Jack Burnham

2.1. The Future of Responsive Systems in Art

3. Graduate Seminar in Art - Spring 2012

4. "just-in-time" production

5. system aesthetics

5.1. LINK: The Future of Responsive Systems in Art

5.2. Beyond Modern Sculpture: The Effects of Science and Technology on the Sculpture of This Century (Jack Burnham, 1968)

6. subjectivity

7. Bruno Latour

7.1. actor-network theory

7.1.1. "Mediators transform, translate, distort, and modify the meaning or the elements they are supposed to carry"

8. Walter Benjamin

8.1. reproducibility

8.2. "... process reproduction is more independent of the original than manual reproduction. For example, in photography, process reproduction can bring out those aspects of the original that are unattainable to the naked eye yet accessible to the lens, which is adjustable and chooses its angle at will. And photographic reproduction, with the aid of certain processes, such as enlargement or slow motion, can capture images which escape natural vision." (The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, 1936)

8.3. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

9. Nicholas Bourriad

9.1. "the artwork is thus no longer presented to be consumed within a monumental time frame and open for a universal public; rather it elapses within a factual time, for an audience summonded by the artist." (Relational Aesthetics: 29)

9.2. "Otherwise put, the role of artworks is no longer to form imaginary and utopian realities, but to actually be ways of living and models of action within the existing real, whatever scale chosen by the artist." (Relational Aesthetics: 13)

10. empathy

11. Stephanie Owens, Visiting Associate Professor, Art

12. 01

12.1. perceiver/perceived

12.2. subject/object

12.3. material/sign

12.4. us/them

12.5. form/content

12.6. internal/external

12.7. - / +

13. Arjun Appadurai

13.1. global modernity

13.2. Modernity At Large

14. Nigel Thrift

14.1. non-representational theory

15. Paul Virilio

15.1. The Aesthetics of Disappearance

15.2. The Lost Dimension

16. Jean Baudrillard

16.1. Simulacra and Simulation

17. reCAPTCHA

17.1. We believe the results presented here are part of a proof of concept of a more general idea: “Wasted” human processing power can be harnessed to solve problems that computers cannot yet solve. Some have referred to this idea as “human computation.” (reCAPTCHA: Human-Based Character Recognition via Web Security Measures": 1467)

18. The Sheep Market (Aaron Koblin (2006)

19. Journey (That Game Company 2011)

20. Evoke (Usman Haque, 2007)

21. We Feel Fine (Jonathan Harris, Sep Kamvar, 2006)

22. plural consciousness

23. subject/object

24. Maurice Merleau-Ponty

24.1. "l'entourage" : (the setting)

24.2. "I am no more aware of being the true subject of my sensation than of my birth or my death" (Phenomenology: 215)

24.3. The Primacy of Perception (1964)

25. post-representational art

26. crowd authorship

27. Paolo Virno

27.1. A Grammar of the Multitude

27.2. "Multitude signifies: plurality–literally: being-many–as a lasting form of the scoial and political existence, as opposed to the cohesive unity of the people. Thus, multitude consists of a network of individuals; the many are a singularity: (A Grammar of the Multitude: 76)