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For a New Computational Aesthetics: Algorithmic Environments as Actual Objects

dc.creatorParisi, Luciana
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-29T09:14:50Z
dc.date.available2020-07-29T09:14:50Z
dc.date.issued2012-11-07
dc.description.abstractAlgorithms are at the core of the computational logic. Formalism and axiomatics have also determined how the shortest algorithmic set or program deploys the most elegant form. This equivalence between axiomatics and beauty however hides a profound ontological ground based on order, rationality and cognition. However, this paper suggests that the pervasion of ubiquitous media and in particular of software agencies (from page ranking software to software for urban design) point to the formation of a new computational aesthetics defined by prehending algorithms. The paper will argue that this new mode of prehension defies the ontological ground of order and cognition revealing that randomness (or non-compressible data) is at the core of computation. The paper will draw on Alfred N. Whitehead’s notion of actual objects and Gregory Chaitin’s theory of the uncomputable to suggest that algorithms need to be understood in terms of ecology of prehensions. This understanding implies a notion of computational aesthetics defined by the chaotic architecture of data hosted by our programming culture.en
dc.format.extent01:11:52
dc.identifier.doi10.25969/mediarep/14003
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/bkm/archivseiten/32_parisi.html
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/14959
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherRuhr-Universtität Bochum
dc.publisher.placeBochum
dc.relation.ispartofseriesbochumer kolloquium medienwissenschaft
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
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dc.subjectMedientheorie
dc.subjectDigitalität
dc.subjectArchitektur
dc.subjectdigitalityen
dc.subjectarchitectureen
dc.subjectmedia theoryen
dc.subject.ddcddc:302.23
dc.titleFor a New Computational Aesthetics: Algorithmic Environments as Actual Objectsen
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dc.typelecture
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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