scholarly journals Aesthetic Delusions: An Investigation into the Role of Rapid Visual Adaptation in Aesthetic Practice

2021 ◽  
Vol Volume 14 ◽  
pp. 1079-1087
Author(s):  
Kate Goldie ◽  
David Cumming ◽  
Daria Voropai ◽  
Afshin Mosahebi ◽  
Sabrina Guillen Fabi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Visual Adaptation ◽  
Aesthetic Practice

Intermedia – (Not Only) The Visual in the Hypertext of Contemporary Art

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mladen Mladenov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Social Engagement ◽  
Artistic Expression ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Aesthetic Practice ◽  
The Common ◽  
The 1950S

The article presents some historical and theoretical aspects defining intermedia as an aesthetic, cultural and social phenomenon. Its appearance in the 1950s and 1960s was triggered by the changed attitude towards art in the conditions of growing technology in society and the blurring of boundaries between different arts. The concept of intermedia is created by a group of artists who unite under the common name Fluxus, meaning „ flow of life“. Group Manifesto – Dick Higgins, composer, poet, publisher - formulates intermedia as a merger into a „ flow“ of different ways of artistic expression and means of communication. The most important distinctive features of intermedia – accessibility, non-commerciality, freedom, social engagement, compliance of modern lifestyle and the new media in it are traced. It explains the role of this aesthetic practice as an instrument in creating the hypertext of contemporary art.

scholarly journals Forging Strategic Alliances

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-49
Author(s):  
Gaia Tedone
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Alliances ◽  
Online Environment ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
Aesthetic Practice ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Data Layers ◽  
Relationship Of

Under conditions of so-called “Platform Capitalism”, software and algorithms undertake the important task of designing the interaction amongst online users and establishing criteria of relevance for content. As such, they operate as curatorial agents of platforms’ content, establishing what is there to see, know and consume. This state of affairs calls for a revision of the traditional role of the (human) curator who is confronted with an online environment characterised by the unprecedented collision of commercial, aesthetic, cultural and political interests. The question of what kind of relationship the curator shall create with the algorithm then becomes crucial: is this a relationship of antagonism, resistance or alliance? How do these two curatorial agents influence each other? In this article, I analyse a cluster of hybrid artistic and curatorial experiments (including my own curatorial work) that foregrounds online platforms as discrete modes of socio-technical assemblages that curate particular forms of connectivity amongst networks of users, data layers and technical infrastructures. By doing so, I argue for the forging of strategic alliances between human and machinic curators as a strategy to channel new forms of creativity and cooperation under conditions of “Platform Capitalism” and to operationalise human-algorithmic curation as a political and aesthetic practice within the networked culture.

The nursing associate in aesthetic practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 314-315
Author(s):  
Sharon King
Keyword(s):  
Aesthetic Practice ◽  
Medical Aesthetics

Sharon King discusses the role of the nursing associate within medical aesthetics

The Possible Role of Eye-Muscle Potentiation in Several Forms of Prism Adaptation

Perception ◽  
1974 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 477-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
S M Ebenholtz
Keyword(s):  
Prism Adaptation ◽  
Visual Adaptation ◽  
Visual Effects ◽  
Eye Muscle ◽  
Eye Muscles ◽  
Visual Distance ◽  
Muscle Potentiation

It is possible to explain a number of observations of visual adaptation to optical rearrangement and other visual effects as examples of the ‘Kohnstamm phenomenon’. This is the tendency for a stressed muscle to remain innervated for a period of time after cessation of the voluntary signal to relax. When this phenomenon operates with respect to eye muscles, it may be referred to as ‘eye-muscle potentiation’. Several studies and their results are presented that demonstrate eye-muscle potentiation effects on apparent visual distance. The implications of these studies for prism adaptation are discussed.

The Trace Beneath: The Photographic Residue in the Early Twentieth-century Paintings of the “Bombay School”

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Shukla Sawant
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
Life Study ◽  
Female Model ◽  
Gendered Politics ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Aesthetic Practice ◽  
Scientific Accuracy ◽  
And Control

This essay examines the interface between the indexical and the gestural, through the practice of early twentieth-century painters active in the Bombay Presidency and adjoining princely states such as Kolhapur and Aundh. It draws upon archival materials such as biographies, memoirs, and photographs documenting artists at work in the studio, as well as remains of posed photographs that were produced as aide-mémoire for paintings. It throws light on the fraught place of photography as aesthetic practice in the art academy, its association with colonial protocols of scientific accuracy, capture and control, and its use to construct suggestive representational hybrids of the anatomical and the painterly outside the academy. The article explores patterns of patronage and of the use of photography in the practices of art production, publication, and exhibition, looking, in particular, at the role of the photographic basis of the portrait painting, and how photography became a supplement to “life-study” or the practice of drawing from nude models. The gendered politics of this interface, between artist, technology, and female model is a recurrent thread of analysis, drawing on critical debates that were published in Marathi periodicals of the time. The article explores the braiding of technologies in artistic practice in different sites, from the academy and the artist’s studio through to publication and exhibition in galleries, and illustrated magazines. While the essay considers a number of artists, including Ravi Varma, Durandhar, and Thakur Singh, it focuses, in particular, on Baburao Painter for his engagement with photography and painting in a career which traversed theater, painting, photography, and film production.

Disputes in aesthetic practice: what can be done?

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 114-115
Author(s):  
Ross Martin
Keyword(s):  
Aesthetic Practice

Disputes, grievances and complaints are increasing, but aesthetic practitioners often do not have the experience to handle these matters, and they are usually instructed to pass these over to their insurers. Dr Ross Martin explains the role of mediator and how they can help in such disputes

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