The Engagement Aesthetic: Experiencing New Media Art through Critique (International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics)

"Long after painting, sculpture, photography, and film developed along with their materials - canvas and panel, marble and bronze, and celluloid film - a new generation of art has emerged in which digital, electronic, architectural, and performative materials have offered new forms for creative expression and experience. In much of this new art, the medium - no longer composed of passive materials - now embraces and challenges viewers to work as co-creators of aesthetic experience. Starting from the impossibility of understanding this new and complex art solely within the framework of contemporary art history and criticism, The Engagement Aesthetic offers new modes of critique for new media works of art, literature, and performance that operate in complex ways. Blending a range of methodologies from phenomenology, art history, linguistics, and statistical analysis, Ricardo explores how a new kinship between individual participation, electronic media, virtual and actual space, and mediated language results in a new aesthetic of mutual engagement."--Bloomsbury Publishing. Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 1 The engagement aesthetic-An introduction......Page 8 2 Engagement as subjective system in electronic art......Page 18 3 Transmodal engagement-Multiple media in singular works......Page 36 4 Engagement as media metonymy-The aural as visual......Page 56 5 Projective engagement-Transcending the modernist grid......Page 64 6 Engagement from objecthood to processhood......Page 80 7 Engagement in virtual and actual gallery space......Page 94 8 Non-local engagement-The aura of the distributed moment......Page 98 9 Engagement as spatial chronotope-Electronic art and the public sphere......Page 120 10 Engagement across space and structure in post-architecture......Page 136 11 Performative engagement-Dance with projective images......Page 144 12 Engagement as performed intimacy-Depicting part-object desire, visually......Page 158 13 Engagement as post-literary mechanism, an historical argument......Page 168 14 Engagement as post-literary mechanism, from exposition to reflexivity......Page 176 15 Engagement as comparative communication-Formalisms of digital text......Page 190 16 Engagement across shifting beliefs: Shamanism, Turing, and ELIZA......Page 208 Appendix......Page 218 Notes......Page 222 Bibliography......Page 232 Index......Page 236 Long after painting, sculpture, photography, and film developed along with their materials - canvas and panel, marble and bronze, and celluloid film - a new generation of art has emerged in which digital, electronic, architectural, and performative materials have offered new forms for creative expression and experience. In much of this new art, the medium - no longer composed of passive materials - now embraces and challenges viewers to work as co-creators of aesthetic experience. Starting from the impossibility of understanding this new and complex art solely within the framework of contemporary art history and criticism, 'The Engagement Aesthetic' offers new modes of critique for new media works of art, literature, and performance that operate in complex ways. Blending a range of methodologies from phenomenology, art history, linguistics, and statistical analysis, Ricardo explores how a new kinship between individual participation, electronic media, virtual and actual space, and mediated language results in a new aesthetic of mutual engagement. -- Publishers description The Engagement Aesthetic: An Introduction -- Engagement As Subjective System In Electronic Art -- Transmodal Engagement: Multiple Media In Singular Works -- Engagement As Media Metonymy: The Aural As Visual -- Projective Engagement: Transcending The Modernist Grid -- Engagement From Objecthood To Processhood -- Engagement In Virtual And Actual Gallery Space -- Non-local Engagement: The Aura Of The Distributed Moment -- Engagement As Spatial Chronotope: Electronic Art And The Public Sphere -- Engagement Across Space And Structure In Post-architecture -- Performative Engagement: Dance With Projective Images -- Engagement As Performed Intimacy: Depicting Part-object Desire, Visually -- Engagement As Post-literary Mechanism, An Historical Argument -- Engagement As Post-literary Mechanism, From Exposition To Reflexivity -- Engagement As Comparative Communication: Formalisms Of Digital Text -- Engagement Across Shifting Beliefs: Shamanism, Turing, And Eliza. Francisco J. Ricardo. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.