24 Jul
The Engagement Aesthetic – An IntroductionA new form of perceptual process, perhaps interactive and embodied, but more than both or either, connects contemporary art to the art of digital media. The title of this post is the title of my upcoming book.
08 Jul
Emergent Form in the Post-Literary Mechanism, From Exposition to ReflexivityThe argument begun with an historical and critical overlay of form in relation to typography is extended to examples of conceptual re-formation of structure where the work reflects its own content.
05 May
Emergent Form in the Post-Literary Mechanism, an Historical ArgumentAn historical and critical overlay of form in relation to sculpture, typography, and the geometric insistence of printed page serves as a preamble for a subsequent analysis of the Readers Project.
03 May
Marine Osprey at MIT This is not a typical post, but as I’m sitting in my balcony writing, I hear this roar – not too unusual for the area, given that Back Bay is one of Boston’s most frequented helicopter zones. But living in Cambridge, so near to MIT has significant advantages; in addition to the views of downtown [...]
15 Apr
The Aura of the Distributed MomentWalter Benjamin’s auratic aesthetic implies norms of creation that no longer reflect the pluralistic structure of transmedia art.
05 Apr
Cyberculture’s Perpetual “Until Something Else”Cyberculture, whatever definition may address its structural characteristics, behaves as a social network of successive obsolescences.
25 Mar
Spatial Engagement’s Chronotope in Electronic Art and the Public SphereThe architectural interventions that have come to the public sphere are not merely physical or sculptural. As public art, electronic works possess a unique chronotope, or spatiotemporal character, in Bakhtin’s term.