{"id":5459,"date":"2014-03-24T17:12:27","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T23:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=5459"},"modified":"2025-05-12T20:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T02:06:10","slug":"march-27-christiane-paul-genealogies-of-the-new-aesthetic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2014\/03\/24\/march-27-christiane-paul-genealogies-of-the-new-aesthetic\/","title":{"rendered":"March 27 &#8211; Christiane Paul: Genealogies of the New Aesthetic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thursday, March 27, 6 p.m.<\/strong>\u00a0|\u00a0<em>Christiane Paul in person!<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10198\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10198\" style=\"width: 892px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10198\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2014\/03\/PNG-image.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"892\" height=\"522\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10198\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image from Clement Valla\u2019s Postcards from Google Earth. http:\/\/www.postcards-from-google-earth.com\/<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Curator and scholar\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newschool.edu\/public-engagement\/ma-media-studies-faculty\/?id=87920\">Christiane Paul<\/a>\u00a0presents a multimedia talk on the<em>\u201cGenealogies of the New Aesthetic.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Identified as such by the British artist and programmer\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/shorttermmemoryloss.com\/\">James Bridle<\/a>, 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\u2019s Tumblr as her starting point \u2014 a collage of corruption artifacts, 8-bit imagery, information visualization, and more \u2014 Paul (using research conducted in collaboration with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/malcolmlevy.net\/\">Malcolm Levy<\/a>) traces the histories of each to create a lineage for practices, artifacts, and their aesthetics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><em>1968-2014, multiple countries, multiple formats, ca 60 minutes + discussion<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Christiane Paul (b. 1961, Attendorn, Germany) is Associate Professor at the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newschool.edu\/public-engagement\/media-studies\">School of Media Studies<\/a>, 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 \u2014 including\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitney.org\/Exhibitions\/CoryArcangel\">Cory Arcangel: Pro Tools<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(2011),<em>Profiling<\/em>\u00a0(2007),\u00a0<em>Data Dynamics<\/em>\u00a0(2001) and\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/artport.whitney.org\/\">artport<\/a><\/em>, the Whitney Museum\u2019s website devoted to Internet art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, March 27, 6 p.m.\u00a0|\u00a0Christiane Paul in person! Curator and scholar\u00a0Christiane Paul\u00a0presents a multimedia talk on the\u201cGenealogies of the New Aesthetic.\u201d\u00a0Identified as such by the British artist and programmer\u00a0James 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, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2014\/03\/24\/march-27-christiane-paul-genealogies-of-the-new-aesthetic\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from March 27 &#8211; Christiane Paul: Genealogies of the New Aesthetic<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":204,"featured_media":5390,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[120,152,284,296],"class_list":["post-5459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-19","tag-christiane-paul","tag-curators-and-programmers","tag-internet","tag-james-bridle"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5459"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10200,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459\/revisions\/10200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}