Class Digital Aesthetics

The discipline of digital aesthetics develops theoretical knowledge about the aesthetics of digital and network arts, through a reassessment of modernist aesthetic categories, in comparison with relevant case studies for the analysis and intervention on contemporary arts, in themselves highly unique

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1. Crisis of aesthetic modernity Aesthetics and modernism The Avant-garde crisis Duchamp's aesthetics   2. Genealogy of technological arts 2.1 Art and reproducibility 2.2.The machine's aesthetics 2.3. Cyber ¿¿Arts 2.4. Les Immatériaux (1985, Pompidou)   3. Categories of digital aesthetics 3.1. Interactivity 3.2. Relationality 3.3. Intermediality 3.4. Hybridity 3.5. Immersiveness 3.6. Participation   4. Case studies

The methodologies used involve the debate on the main theoretical categories of Digital Aesthetics and the critical analysis of relevant chaos studies. Digital means and those related to artificial intelligence are utilized to allow the teacher to monitor individual writing.

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