> > Summer school: Aesthetics, Technique and Emotion, Lake Come School of > Advanced Studies, 7-10 June 2021 (https://aeat.lakecomoschool.org/) > > What is aesthetics, and what value can the question of aesthetics have today? > The school, organized by the University of Milan in collaboration with the > European Seminar of Aesthetics – an international network of academics and > researchers founded in 2014 with the aim of fostering critical debate on key > topics in aesthetics (https://sites.unimi.it/eu_aesthetics/about/ > <https://sites.unimi.it/eu_aesthetics/about/>) – intends to address these and > other questions concerning the relationship between aesthetics, art and > technique. In fact, many changes are occurring nowadays in our aesthetic > perception of the world. The boundaries of art are becoming more and more > difficult to determine – considering for example the new challenges posed by > art created by (or through) artificial intelligence, or the new tools offered > by virtual reality. Moreover, a new aesthetic value is increasingly > attributed to many aspects of our everyday life, like the images that we > exchange daily via mobile phones and websites. > In the face of these innovations, what tools for thinking can be provided by > aesthetics, a discipline that was born in the eighteenth century, in a > necessarily very different cultural environment? What role can categories > such as beauty, ugliness, sublime, kitsch, or concepts such as genius and > taste play today? How is it possible to rethink our idea of the art and the > artist, or the relationship between the artists and the techniques used in > their works? > > The School aims to involve students and researchers from different > backgrounds in the discussion. The morning talks will be given by > international experts, while the afternoon will be dedicated to one more > speaker and to the discussion of the day’s topics. > > The School is directed toward PhD students, advanced master students and > postdocs. In order to participate, it is necessary to have a bachelor degree > (three years). It is not necessary for participants to have studied > philosophy; other fields are also welcome, since the philosophical questions > will be raised through an interdisciplinary approach, involving performative > arts, technology, figurative arts etc. > > Participants will have the opportunity to prepare a short talk (5 minutes, 1 > page length) and later elaborate upon it in a paper. The best papers will be > selected to be published in a special issue of the journal “Itinera” > (https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/itinera). > > Due to the pandemic situation, we decided to plan the school fully online. > Registration will be free of charge, but mandatory for all participants. A > limited number of students will be selected. > > All details on the website: https://aeat.lakecomoschool.org/ > > For any information: [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > > > >> -- https://www.vidal-rosset.net/mailing_list_educasupphilo.html
