The Transparency of Aesthetics: Between Nonsense and Technology
Date
2013-04-03
Authors
Hiebert, Ted
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Publisher
Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture
Abstract
Professor Ted Hiebert discusses the aesthetics of transparency in the context of his new book, In Praise of Nonsense: Aesthetics, Uncertainty and Postmodern Identity. His lecture explores the codes and aesthetics of transparency, engaging questions of nonsense, perception and technology as ways to re-imagine the possibilities of the posthuman.
Ted Hiebert is the author of the highly acclaimed, In Praise of Nonsense: Aesthetics, Uncertainty and Postmodern Identity (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press) and an Assistant Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell. As a Canadian visual artist, his large-scale photographic works have been exhibited nationally and internationally. Professor Hiebert’s written work has been published in Performance Research, The Psychoanalytic Review, Technoetic Arts and CTheory.
Description
"Phantasms of perception between technology & nonsense"
Keywords
aesthetics of transparency, nonsense, technology, posthumanism, postmodern identity
Citation
Hiebert, Ted. "The Transparency of Aesthetics: Between Nonsense and Technology." Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture, Victoria, B.C. 3 April 2013. Presentation.