Contemporary Aesthetic Experience

The smooth space is a space without fixed perspective.

The power of a cultural production resides not in its ability to immediately modify the present, but in its capacity to influence the future.

Der Teutoburger Wald enthält auch die Selbstverklärung zum edlen, wilden Germanen und lädt darin zur Selbstexotisierung ein.

Die Stimme dient also nicht nur der Sprachvermittlung, sondern auch als Zeichen des anwesenden Körpers.

Shimmery Skin Entangled It Grows

The cybernetic dream of Norbert Wiener is nearly coming true.

(De)generative Art: Rules-transgressing Algorithms

Le Désir attrapé par la queue

Stratigraphische Bilder. Neue Ästhetiken der Montage?

In Walter Benjamin’s understanding, the use of allegory is
typical of Baroque Art: Man acknowledges his guilty passion for this world in the moment of its decay.

It is necessary to promote and ensure the democratic “distribution of the sensible”.

Androids, cyborgs, and avatars are new territories beyond the body’s biological condition. However, these territories ought to be also a discursive extension, where new identities, categories, and values can coexist.

Distanzierung, ihr Ergebnis, legt nicht nur den objektiven Charakter des Kunstwerks frei.

The precarious and the immune are no longer only in a relation of opposites in post-Fordist societies, but rather more and more also in a relation of overlapping, tending, in fact, to become indistinguishable.

Situated Speculations

One of the tasks of art criticism is 
to make evident the discursive qualities of artistic creation.

How can we break the ahistoric informatic screens in the laboratories and camps of this world that take away the eyes and parts of the bodies today as we‘re governed by opaque oceans of data?

Aesthetics: And Smooth and Striated Space, 572-82.

Wie prägen die technischen Interfaces unseren Blick?