232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book investigates the notion of beauty in participatory art, an interdisciplinary form that necessitates the audience’s agential participation and that is often seen in interactive art and technology-driven media installations. After considering established theories of beauty, for example, Plato, Alison, Hume, Kant, Gadamer and Santayana through to McMahon and Sartwell, Heinrich argues... Read more
1. Introduction 2. On the Ambiguity of the Notion of Beauty 3. Technology – Unity and Distinctions 4. To Do – On the Immediacy of Performative Beauty 5. To Act – On the Beauty of Interaction 6. To Perform – On Beauty as Realization 7. The Beauty of Acts 8. Beauty in a Participatory Culture
Biography
Falk Heinrich is an associate professor and head of studies (School of Communication, Art, and Technology) at Aalborg University, Denmark and has worked as an actor, theatre director, and installation artist.
