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Art as information ecology : artworks, artworlds & complex systems aesthetics

Title
Art as information ecology : artworks, artworlds & complex systems aesthetics / Jason A. Hoelscher.
Author
Hoelscher, Jason, 1969-
Publication
Durham : Duke University Press, [2021]

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Series Statement
Thought in the act
Uniform Title
Thought in the act.
Subject
  • Art, Modern > 20th century
  • Aesthetics, Modern > 20th century
  • Information theory in aesthetics
  • Art, American > 20th century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Art is fuzzy information -- Art and differential objecthood -- Aesthetic entropy machines -- Butterfly effects in information space -- Information efflorescence and the aesthetic singularity -- Aesthetic amplification and adjacent possibility -- Complex unities and complex boundaries -- Conclusion: Information entanglement and the post-evental artworld.
Call Number
JQE 25-637
ISBN
  • 9781478013457
  • 1478013451
  • 9781478014386
  • 1478014385
LCCN
2020048995
OCLC
1202758171
Author
Hoelscher, Jason, 1969- author.
Title
Art as information ecology : artworks, artworlds & complex systems aesthetics / Jason A. Hoelscher.
Publisher
Durham : Duke University Press, [2021]
Description
x, 272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Thought in the act
Thought in the act.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary
"Art as Information Ecology reveals art as a mode of information that resists settling into the equilibrium of an answer, generating sustained difference and systemic diversity that cascades across multiple scales. Based on close readings that reconceive and connect the typically opposed information theories of Claude Shannon and Gilbert Simondon, as explained through a series of artistic case studies from American art of the 1960s, the book proposes that art is information in its aesthetic or indeterminate mode-information oriented less toward offering answers than toward opening possibilities"-- Provided by publisher.
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Other Form:
Online version: Hoelscher, Jason, 1969- Art as information ecology (OCoLC)1296545814
Research Call Number
JQE 25-637
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