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  • Art as Information Ecology

  • Artworks, Artworlds, and Complex Systems Aesthetics (Thought in the Act)
  • By: Jason A. Hoelscher
  • Narrated by: Bill Davis
  • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins

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Art as Information Ecology

By: Jason A. Hoelscher
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Publisher's Summary

In Art as Information Ecology, Jason A. Hoelscher offers not only an information theory of art but an aesthetic theory of information. Applying close readings of the information theories of Claude Shannon and Gilbert Simondon to 1960s American art, Hoelscher proposes that art is information in its aesthetic or indeterminate mode—information oriented less toward answers and resolvability than toward questions, irresolvability, and sustained difference. In this way, art constitutes information that remains in formation---a difference that makes a difference that keeps on differencing. Considering the works of Frank Stella, Robert Morris, Adrian Piper, the Drop City commune, Eva Hesse, and others, Hoelscher finds that art exists within an information ecology of complex feedback between artwork and artworld that is driven by the unfolding of difference. By charting how information in its aesthetic mode can exist beyond today's strictly quantifiable and monetizable forms, Hoelscher reconceives our understanding of how artworks work and how information operates. The images in the book are available at the website, artinfoecology.com

The book is published by Duke University Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.

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Critic Reviews

“Will open new pathways...This ambitious book is bound to create ripple effects.” (Cristina Albu, author of Mirror Affect)

“Jason A. Hoelscher digs deep, looking into contemporary artworks in very different ways than ever before...” (Sharon Louden, editor of the Living and Sustaining a Creative Life series of books)

“Hoelscher proposes to create a discourse that places art in the midst of contemporary intellectualism... Recommended.” (Choice)

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