Aesthetics in the Internet Age

Author: Zhang Jiangnan
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Publish Date: 2006-02-01
Features: When the medium of aesthetic dissemination changes, what kind of impact does this change have on aesthetics itself? How does this impact manifest? And what significance does this manifestation hold for aesthetics itself? This series of questions is the fundamental issue we face when reflecting on the new artistic phenomenon of network aesthetics, and it is also the primary issue we need to address when focusing on network literature from an aesthetic perspective. This is because these questions fundamentally determine the status and significance of network aesthetics in art and aesthetics, as well as the characteristics and value of network aesthetics as a new artistic form. In other words, they determine the right to exist of network aesthetics.