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Item specifics
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- Release Year
- 2021
- Book Title
- Art as Information Ecology: Artworks, Artworlds, and Complex S...
- ISBN
- 9781478014386
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-10
1478014385
ISBN-13
9781478014386
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4050395389
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Art As Information Ecology : Artworks, Artworlds, and Complex Systems Aesthetics
Subject
History / Contemporary (1945-), Criticism & Theory, General
Publication Year
2021
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Art
Series
Thought in the Act Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
16.8 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2020-048995
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
In Art as Information Ecology , Jason A. Hoelscher digs deep, looking into contemporary artworks in very different ways than ever before: from the premise that art can be a foundation of information that is like a multilayered cake, impossible to finish. I applaud Hoelscher for his in-depth, intense, and focused look into how art is a base for information systems that carry beyond the work themselves., Masterfully intertwining aesthetics, information theory, and entropy concepts, Jason A. Hoelscher offers an insightful account of the accelerated transformations of art practices in the 1960s. Art as Information Economy will open new pathways toward a better understanding of the complexities of periodizing contemporary art at a time when artworlds are in more intense communication with other systems. This ambitious book is bound to create ripple effects., If the task of humanists presently is to make bridges with STEM, [ Art as Information Ecology ] is a worthwhile effort in that direction. . . . For too long scholars have theorized about Western art in terms of the evolution from the static and remote icon; Hoelscher proposes to create a discourse that places art in the midst of contemporary intellectualism and to acknowledge how context, ever-changing, partly constitutes the work of art. Recommended., Masterfully intertwining aesthetics, information theory, and entropy concepts, Jason A. Hoelscher offers an insightful account of the accelerated transformations of art practices in the 1960s. Art as Information Ecology will open new pathways toward a better understanding of the complexities of periodizing contemporary art at a time when artworlds are in more intense communication with other systems. This ambitious book is bound to create ripple effects.
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
709.04
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Art is Fuzzy Information 1 1. Art and Differential Objecthood 17 2. Aesthetic Entropy Machines 51 3. Butterfly Effects in Information Space 84 4. Information Efflorescence and the Aesthetic Singularity 119 5. Aesthetic Amplification and Adjacent Possibility 150 6. Complex Unities and Complex Boundaries 186 Conclusion. Information Entanglement and the Post-Evental Artworld 220 Notes 235 Bibliography 253 Index 267
Synopsis
Drawing on close readings of 1960s American art, Jason A. Hoelscher offers an information theory of art and an aesthetic theory of information in which he shows how art operates as information wherein art's meaning cannot be determined., In Art as Information Ecology , Jason A. Hoelscher offers not only an information theory of art but an aesthetic theory of information. Applying close readings of the information theories of Claude Shannon and Gilbert Simondon to 1960s American art, Hoelscher proposes that art is information in its aesthetic or indeterminate mode--information oriented less toward answers and resolvability than toward questions, irresolvability, and sustained difference. These irresolvable differences, Hoelscher demonstrates, fuel the richness of aesthetic experience by which viewers glean new information and insight from each encounter with an artwork. In this way, art constitutes information that remains in formation---a difference that makes a difference that keeps on differencing. Considering the works of Frank Stella, Robert Morris, Adrian Piper, the Drop City commune, Eva Hesse, and others, Hoelscher finds that art exists within an information ecology of complex feedback between artwork and artworld that is driven by the unfolding of difference. By charting how information in its aesthetic mode can exist beyond today's strictly quantifiable and monetizable forms, Hoelscher reconceives our understanding of how artworks work and how information operates.
LC Classification Number
N66.H64 2021
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