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Title

Tsk-tsk-tsk & beyond: anticipating distributed aesthetics

Author(s)

Tofts, Darren

Abstract

This paper considers some important precursory events in the formative history of Australian media arts. These events have anticipated the post-object, serial conception of arts practice that Nicolas Bourriaud has called relational aesthetics. Relational aesthetics interpret both artwork and audience in differential, highly idiosyncratic ways; ways that have become important to our contemporary vocabulary of interactive, immersive and interfaced art. This paper will consider the ways in which the concept of the network was important to artists such as Philip Brophy and Tsk-tsk-tsk in the early 1980s. It will also explore related notions of 'audience manipulation' in the work of Martine Corompt.

Publication type

Journal article

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Life and Social Sciences

Source

Fibreculture Journal, No. 7 (2005)

Publication year

2005

FOR Code(s)

2001 Communication and Media Studies

Keyword(s)

Aesthetics;  Australia;  Bourriaud, Nicolas, 1965-;  Brophy, Philip, 1959-;  Corompt, Martine, 1968-;  Digital art;  Experimental music;  Media arts

Publisher

Fibreculture Network

ISSN

1449-1443

Publisher URL

http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue7/issue7_tofts.html

Copyright

Copyright © 2005 Darren Tofts. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/). Published version of the paper reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.

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