The Future of Art in a Digital Age

by Alexenberg, Mel

• ISBN13: 9781841501369
• ISBN10: 1841501360
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-08-01
• Publisher: Intellect L & D E F A E

Summary

"This book offers a prophetic vision of art in a digital future. Expanding upon the emerging artistic prospects made possible by technology, it explores the new directions in art that have arisen between the planes of science, technological development and cultural expression. Focusing upon the epochal shift from pre- to post-modernism, the author examines the interrelations between digital age art and Jewish consciousness."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Introduction - postmodern paradigm shift : From Hellenistic to Hebraic consciousness	p. 9
Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum	p. 10
Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum	p. 12
Hebraic consciousness and postmodernism	p. 13
Roots and globalization	p. 14
Down-to-Earth spirituality	p. 17
Multiple perspectives	p. 18
Talmud and the Internet	p. 21
Engaging the Bible in a playful spirit	p. 24
Intergenerational collaboration in polycultural art	p. 26
Semiotic perspectives - redefining art in a digital age	p. 33
From representational to presentational art	p. 34
Iconic art : resemblance	p. 35
Symbolic art : consensus	p. 38
Indexic art : documentation	p. 42
Identic art : being	p. 45
Prioric art : proposing	p. 49
Dialogic art : interacting	p. 57
Morphological perspectives - space-time structures of visual culture	p. 65
Latent structure and transformative processes	p. 66
Alternative perspectives	p. 68
Mythological perspective	p. 70
Logical perspective	p. 73
Ecological perspective	p. 75
Origins of ecological perspective in science	p. 78
Origins of ecological perspective in modern art	p. 80
From deconstruction to reconstruction	p. 84
Morphological analysis of visual culture : biblical fringes	p. 89
Art as visual midrash : four wings of America	p. 94
Sky art : from Munich to the Tzin wilderness	p. 98
Kabbalistic perspectives - creative process in art and science	p. 109
Spiritual bits and bytes	p. 110
Biblical roots of Kabbalah	p. 114
Ten Sephirot of creative process	p. 118
Digitized homage to Rembrandt	p. 122
Cyberangels and AT&T	p. 127
Creativity in art and science	p. 129
Pathways to beauty	p. 139
Halakhic perspectives - creating a beautiful life	p. 143
Beyond religion and science	p. 144
Lessons from 9/11 : choose life not death	p. 147
Tower of Babel : disastrous creativity	p. 150
Eruv at Sodom : honoring human diversity	p. 151
Beautifying actions : adding light to the world	p. 155
LightsOROT at MIT : learning Torah through art	p. 158
Responsive art in a digital age	p. 169
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