[-empyre-] The machine gaze As the boundaries between digital and physical dissolve, can the New Aesthetic help us see things more clearly?

[Michael Dieter]

One of the strange qualities about it for sure, it gets extremely
difficult to speak coherently about an aesthetic manifesto when it's
produced this way. Is NA about a new subjectivity, pattern
recognition, image-based blogging, a sympathy with machines, hybrid
space, speculative realism, or all of the above? Given how the idea
spread so promiscuously, for a while I was convinced that the new
aesthetic was mainly a hashtag.

As a side note, this app by Tom Taylor, Satellite Eyes, is one of the
few other projects I know of that explicitly addresses and performs
the NA as such: http://satelliteeyes.tomtaylor.co.uk/ Interesting as
deliberately produced thing, rather than an artefact that's tagged
after the fact. For some reason, despite the slightly disconcerting
surveillance theme, this makes me extremely happy running on my
desktop.

- M.

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Jon Lebkowsky <jon.lebkowsky at gmail.com> wrote:
> What I find interesting here is that, instead of having a manifesto as a
> declaration of aesthetic intention, you have a manifesto emerging as this
> explosion of digital artifacts - the art is the manifesto. All attempts to
> explain it are so much water circling a drain.
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> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 5:57 PM, David Berry <dmberry at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> For those that might have missed it… heavily retweeted on Twitter…
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>> The machine gaze: As the boundaries between digital and physical dissolve,
>> can the New Aesthetic help us see things more clearly?
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>> Will Wiles 17 September 2012
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>> http://www.aeonmagazine.com/world-views/will-wiles-technology-new-aesthetic/
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