(Big) Data, Diagram Aesthetics and the Question concerning Beauty
The article investigates whether and in which way artistic artefacts deploying big data can be experienced as beautiful. The question is relevant, because the sentiment of beauty indicates besides an immediate sensory valuation also changes in cultural values and epistemic frameworks. The article fo...
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Sammenslutningen af Medieforskere i Danmark (SMID)
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| description | The article investigates whether and in which way artistic artefacts deploying big data can be experienced as beautiful. The question is relevant, because the sentiment of beauty indicates besides an immediate sensory valuation also changes in cultural values and epistemic frameworks. The article focuses on artistic data visualisations. It applies concepts of philosophical aesthetics in order to trace an altered notion of beauty and its artistic and cultural implications.
The article’s introductory part presents some examples of data visualisations and introduces relevant notions of beauty and big data. The main part discusses the changes in our concept of beauty by analysing data visualisation in the light of conceptual art and its aesthetics of the sublime. Data visualizations present potentially unfathomable and complex information that is associated with the sublime, but represent data in a way that allows for understanding by means of imaginations, which are aspects of beauty. The article elaborates on the simultaneity of and oscillation between aesthetic beauty and the aesthetic sublime, by introducing Deleuze’s understandings of the concept of the diagram that is able to mediate between visualisation as representation and diagrams as performative machine of formation and displacement of data relations. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-254dea7d91d64c448038d5a4b1e4060b2022-12-21T17:16:02ZdanSammenslutningen af Medieforskere i Danmark (SMID)MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research0900-96711901-97262016-03-01315910.7146/mediekultur.v31i59.2008418427(Big) Data, Diagram Aesthetics and the Question concerning BeautyFalk Heinrich0Aalborg UniversityThe article investigates whether and in which way artistic artefacts deploying big data can be experienced as beautiful. The question is relevant, because the sentiment of beauty indicates besides an immediate sensory valuation also changes in cultural values and epistemic frameworks. The article focuses on artistic data visualisations. It applies concepts of philosophical aesthetics in order to trace an altered notion of beauty and its artistic and cultural implications. The article’s introductory part presents some examples of data visualisations and introduces relevant notions of beauty and big data. The main part discusses the changes in our concept of beauty by analysing data visualisation in the light of conceptual art and its aesthetics of the sublime. Data visualizations present potentially unfathomable and complex information that is associated with the sublime, but represent data in a way that allows for understanding by means of imaginations, which are aspects of beauty. The article elaborates on the simultaneity of and oscillation between aesthetic beauty and the aesthetic sublime, by introducing Deleuze’s understandings of the concept of the diagram that is able to mediate between visualisation as representation and diagrams as performative machine of formation and displacement of data relations.https://tidsskrift.dk/mediekultur/article/view/20084dataart, visualisation, aesthetics, beauty, sublime, diagram |
| spellingShingle | Falk Heinrich (Big) Data, Diagram Aesthetics and the Question concerning Beauty MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research data art, visualisation, aesthetics, beauty, sublime, diagram |
| title | (Big) Data, Diagram Aesthetics and the Question concerning Beauty |
| title_full | (Big) Data, Diagram Aesthetics and the Question concerning Beauty |
| title_fullStr | (Big) Data, Diagram Aesthetics and the Question concerning Beauty |
| title_full_unstemmed | (Big) Data, Diagram Aesthetics and the Question concerning Beauty |
| title_short | (Big) Data, Diagram Aesthetics and the Question concerning Beauty |
| title_sort | big data diagram aesthetics and the question concerning beauty |
| topic | data art, visualisation, aesthetics, beauty, sublime, diagram |
| url | https://tidsskrift.dk/mediekultur/article/view/20084 |
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