Art as information ecology

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

by Hoelscher, Jason A.

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"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 …

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Art as information ecology : artworks, artworlds & complex systems aesthetics / Jason A. Hoelscher.

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"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"

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:copyright 2021

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Duke University Press
  • Place of Publication:Durham
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:copyright 2021

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 volume (x, 272 pages) : : illustrations en noir. ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781478013457 (rel), 1478013451, 9781478014386, 1478014385
  • oclc:on1315573078
  • LC Classification:N66
  • Dewey Decimal:709.04

Subjects

Aesthetics, Modern Aesthetics, Modern -- 20th century Art -- 20e siècle ART -- American Art, American -- 20th century Art, Modern Art, Modern -- 20th century Esthétique -- 20e siècle Information theory in aesthetics Information, Théorie de l'

Writers

Hoelscher, Jason A.

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