-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/09/14 11:08 AM, Joel Weishaus wrote: > My wife giving a paper on Lacan and the sublime, at Cambridge U. > next week, so it seems the word is "in." The dictionary says > sublime means "impressing the mind with a sense of grandeur or > power; inspiring awe, veneration, etc"
Yes that sounds like a good definition. It's the cognition of being faced with a phenomenon much larger than oneself. (In the case of Facecoin that phenomenon is the Internet-scale activity of cryptocurrencies - http://thenewsublime.com/?p=122 ) > So what is new about the New Sublime? It's digital, which is still new on an art historical timescale. :-) To quote the show organizers - http://thenewsublime.com/?page_id=4 "he New Sublime is an exhibition and series of discussions exploring the new ways in which artists who use digital technology are engaging with the viewer’s attention. This is a thorny subject because technology catches our attention in a particular way. When viewing this kind of work we may be initially fascinated and involved, but eventually slightly bored. This may describe our relationship to technology in general. The question we are asking is: ‘Can art which uses digital technology move us in the same sustained way as other forms of contemporary art?’ Based on our previous experience of curating digital art exhibitions and making our own work, the answer is a tentative “yes”." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUBgroAAoJECciMUAZd2dZ7rEH/2lPNBVrrXw9Bc0K5AObjcGG zU/J/C1ahX+PUI9s/szUpbwIZSFQ2au1O1sBU71bqCSeqG41A895gAYKRL8SXFLX lEuDOyW/qgqzrOyfF+UfgG5UzP9CxM9vmRTLKjKwr/DZ/mX8ppMofKgMplCpQnpp tCa3eUo/HbO9PechD4rPUBWTeqD6RZMPeCVlmfih92BAKbst++bk0Hr2UoAb8a9g +K9KDY7JD4y497IbmSHk8WZIFz1X71J4AQPIAk3LLPpruVazACLpIp215c5UiefR AgaAykOBM6VakkAb+GEmx0WVeKsslDOBQpd8tOHqGK8f+Wl1dDwiWDPYEhBzMW4= =+Cu2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
