[csaa-forum] Fibreculture Journal - Distributed Aesthetics Issue online

[Andrew Murphie]

from Anna Munster...

Distributed Aesthetics, issue 7 of The Fibreculture JournalEdited by Lisa
Gye, Anna Munster and Ingrid Richardson

http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue7/index.html

Rather than try to define the terminology or taxonomy of distributed art
theories and practices we have proposed in this issue a descriptor for the
'aesthesia' of contemporary networked encounters.  Distributed aesthetics
concerns experiences that are sensed, lived and produced in more than one
place and time. This might equally be a sketch of reconsiderations of the
operations of cultural memory or of phenomena such as endurance
performances. But what we propose, through gathering together the disparate
essays in this fibreculture journal issue, is that techno-social networks
are crucially constitutive of this distributed aesthesia.  In various ways,
all the texts here take up the mode through which 'the network' – the
juncture and disjunction of here and there, you and I, social and
individuated – functions as the crucial operand in dispersing and contouring
perception, art practice and aesthetics. This issue of the fibreculture
journal signals important emerging trends and directions for critically
engaged artistic practices and theories in and of the network.

With contributions from:
Darren Tofts
Geert Lovink and Anna Munster
Greg Turner-Rahman
Mark Amerika
Simon Biggs
Vince Dzekian
Edwina Bartlem
Susan Ballard
Keith Armstrong

And with thanks to the readers who assisted with comments and, as always, to
Andrew Murphie


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"I thought I had reached port; but I seemed to be cast
back again into the open sea" (Deleuze and Guattari, after Leibniz)

Dr Andrew Murphie - Senior Lecturer
School of Media, Film and Theatre, University of New South Wales, Sydney,
Australia, 2052
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