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...
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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
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.
