The Networked Image: How Circulation Transforms Visual Meaning
Why where an image travels now matters as much as what it depicts
Procedural Music and the Infinite Playlist: Aesthetics of Algorithmic Sound
When composition becomes cultivation, and music never ends but constantly becomes—how do we listen to the infinite?
The Color of the Screen: How Display Technology Shapes Visual Culture
The physics of screens fundamentally shape what we see—display technology is never neutral.
The Museum Without Walls: How Digitization Changes Art Appreciation
Digital access transforms who can see great art—and what seeing art means in the first place.
The Haptic Image: Touch and Digital Visual Culture
How touchscreens collapsed centuries of visual distance, turning contemplation into choreography
Interactive Art and the Distributed Artwork: When Viewers Complete the Work
When artworks require your participation to exist, who authors the aesthetic experience?
Algorithmic Curation and the Shaping of Taste
Recommendation algorithms are reshaping how taste develops—and foreclosing the encounters through which it might transform.
Generative Art and the Aesthetics of Emergence: When Rules Create Beauty
How simple algorithmic rules generate unexpected visual complexity, redistributing artistic authorship across human intention and computational emergence
Why Digital Art Resists the Frame: The Problem of Boundaries in Screen-Based Work
When art has no edges, how do we know where contemplation begins?
Synthetic Faces and the Uncanny Valley of Digital Portraiture
Why AI-generated faces unsettle us—and what that reveals about what portraits have always promised.
The Death of the Author in Procedural Worlds: Authorship When Algorithms Create
When no one intends the art, who deserves credit? Navigating authorship in systems that create beyond human intention.
Glitch Aesthetics: Finding Beauty in Digital Failure
How artists transform digital breakdown into revelation, exposing the hidden materiality of systems designed to remain invisible
The Sublime Goes Digital: Experiencing Awe in Computational Spaces
When procedurally generated infinities and VR immensity confront classical theories of sublime experience, authentic awe becomes designable
Virtual Reality and the Collapse of Aesthetic Distance
How immersive technology forces us to rethink what aesthetic distance means—and discover new forms of reflective presence within virtual environments.
The Interface as Aesthetic Object: Why Tool Design Shapes Creative Outcome
Your creative software isn't just a tool—it's a silent collaborator encoding aesthetic assumptions into every artwork you produce.
Why Pixel Art Endures: The Aesthetic Power of Deliberate Constraint
Technical limitations don't restrict creativity—they generate distinctive expressive possibilities that unlimited tools cannot access, transforming necessity into enduring aesthetic choice.
Why Screenshots Became Art: The Aesthetics of Captured Play
Exploring how screenshot photography emerged as a legitimate art form that reveals what we actually value in images
Why AI Art Feels Uncanny: The Missing Gesture Behind Machine-Made Images
The unsettling absence in AI images reveals what we unconsciously seek in human art: traces of body, time, and meaningful choice that algorithms cannot provide.
The Aura in the Age of Infinite Reproduction: Walter Benjamin Meets the NFT
Does blockchain technology resurrect artistic aura or merely create an elaborate simulation? The answer transforms how we understand authenticity in digital aesthetics.