March 27 – Christiane Paul: Genealogies of the New Aesthetic
Posted by | George William Price | Posted on | March 24, 2014
Thursday, March 27, 6 p.m. | Christiane Paul in person!
Image from Clement Valla’s Postcards from Google Earth. http://www.postcards-from-google-earth.com/
Curator and scholar Christiane Paul presents a multimedia talk on the“Genealogies of the New Aesthetic.” Identified as such by the British artist and programmer James Bridle, the New Aesthetic began as a Tumblr devoted to new modes of technologically enabled imaging and exploded into a meme dissected by critics from Wired, The Atlantic, and Vanity Fair. Taking Bridle’s Tumblr as her starting point — a collage of corruption artifacts, 8-bit imagery, information visualization, and more — Paul (using research conducted in collaboration with Malcolm Levy) traces the histories of each to create a lineage for practices, artifacts, and their aesthetics.
1968-2014, multiple countries, multiple formats, ca 60 minutes + discussion
Christiane Paul (b. 1961, Attendorn, Germany) is Associate Professor at theSchool of Media Studies, The New School, and Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She has written extensively on new media arts and lectured internationally on art and technology. As Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art, she curated several exhibitions — including Cory Arcangel: Pro Tools (2011),Profiling (2007), Data Dynamics (2001) and artport, the Whitney Museum’s website devoted to Internet art.
Tags: 2014 > Christiane Paul > Curators & Programmers > James Bridle > Media History > The New Aesthetic
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