Comments on: Google’s Aesthetic Turn: One Simple Beautiful Useful Google http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2014/01/13/googles-aesthetic-turn-one-simple-beautiful-useful-google/ Responses to Media and Culture Fri, 12 Feb 2016 19:35:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.5 By: Megan http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2014/01/13/googles-aesthetic-turn-one-simple-beautiful-useful-google/comment-page-1/#comment-426212 Fri, 17 Jan 2014 21:20:22 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=23319#comment-426212 Hi Leo, Thanks for your comment. I believe there is quite a bit of work now that examines digital and computational aesthetics from the perspective of new media art and programming. A few that come to mind:

Johanna Drucker’s SpecLab, Anna Munster’s Materializing New Media, Victoria Vesna’s Database Aesthetics, and I’ve recently seen (but haven’t read) Katja Kwastek’s Aesthetics of Interaction in Digital Art and Paul Fishwick’s Aesthetic Computing.

But as far as I know, there’s less work out there that considers digital aesthetics in the context of media and popular culture. James Bennett and Niki’s Strange’s book Television As Digital Media has a section on the aesthetics of convergence. Dan Chamberlain’s chapter does a nice job discussing media interfaces and the aesthetics of metadata.

]]> By: Leo http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2014/01/13/googles-aesthetic-turn-one-simple-beautiful-useful-google/comment-page-1/#comment-426060 Wed, 15 Jan 2014 22:55:46 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=23319#comment-426060 Thanks for this thoughtful post, which seems to take the AT series in an intriguing direction. Your point that haptic sensations and interactive experiences (“feedback” and “navigational”) qualify as “aesthetic” seems entirely obvious when stated, but my thinking about aesthetics runs so much toward the visual and aural that the observation made me pause.

I am generally unfamiliar with scholarship on gaming, programming, and digital media. Are you aware of any work dealing with the “poetics of programming” or the “poetics of interactivity”?

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