here before. Thank you for coming back. I'll take that as an endorsement. DigitalArts@Google is a new program trying to investigate how we can use the tool, the tools of art and aesthetics to enhance people's understanding of information. The art we selected for our first exhibit was all balanced around the sort of interface between data visualizationand databased art and the artists we have this evening to, to speak to you epitomize
careful philosophers like to and if you've taken courses in philosophy in ethics or in Aesthetics you know that philosophers like to rationalize our intuitions what they do is is take a sort of intuitiveworld view in ethics that you get from from Kant or from Aristotle or from John Stewart
characteristics of art such that we identify them and use them as a basis for a systematic cross-cultural Aesthetics I give an extended discussion of what I call a cluster concept of Artand this is a discussion which um uh has these 12 features extensive extensively discussed with each of them I'll just
What does that mean? Relational aesthetics to me, when I was in graduate school the first time, I wrote my thesis, and I studied what Indigenous aesthetic means, right? And the closest I found was actually Japanese aesthetics that I was about and aesthetics of the everyday
there's a wider view of who decides to get the money and spend the money in the making of things beyond just usability and aesthetics and trying to delight people. Now, there's a a a classic book written by Victor Papernek, Design for the Real World. And in there, he breaks this down very
At the end, she says, and what is your last dream? of aesthetics that you even bring into "Oum Kulthum." And there is a sort of tension between the beauty and also
So we sent it to east LA where a guy named Junior, who was known in the ice cream truck community as being the person who could sort of fix up the aesthetics a little and do some of the interior. The truck lived over at his shop for a couple weeks.
And the likelihood that they're going to do something completely out of the box is very rare, although you can still have very good executives. of aesthetics without consideration of how things work or can work inside.
Oh, I love the subject of aesthetic. I like teaching aesthetics to students, etc., because have you ever heard the term "don't yuck my yum?" So to me, aesthetic is when we let go of our thoughts and find our yum.
about their personality and how they're likely to behave based on that thin slice. Extroverts like their aesthetics to be quite diverse and stimulating, diverse in shape, color, and so on.
But he's also an ally to the rebellion. and how the aesthetics of it have evolved over time, but on some level, this is free advertising for "Star Wars," right?
So this happens to be presented to a game aesthetics . So gamification takes the aesthetics of video games to create, to offer leaderboards, rankings, goals, and to appropriate some of the jargon maybe of game design in order to give us incentives to get better and improve
In Dakar, I'm working with the World Bank to kind of put their infrastructure directly in the continent and not just have it in America, I would say aesthetics come from the problem-solving.
In Dakar, I'm working with the World Bank to kind of put their infrastructure directly in the continent and not just have it in America, We are obsessed with aesthetics , but we're obsessed with aesthetics as a solution to problem-solving.
In Dakar, I'm working with the World Bank to kind of put their infrastructure directly in the continent and not just have it in America, It should find its aesthetics , find its notion through a kind of bigger sort of thinking about how you do things, but it should find its resolution
What the walkways get is like a kind of federated universe of slightly different variations on their ethics, and on their design aesthetics , and on their practices, their engineering practices, their social practices. And so you're right, there may be some element that is optimal for you that isn't perfectly suited in any of the places.
You're more physically comfortable. Not so much your aesthetics .
and cross-breeding between these motifs, and have a fitness function that is based on human's melody, then I can create new, interesting music that has some aesthetics for humans in them. Because it's easy to create melodies that were never created before.
the brute power of Lockheed, all coming up at the same time, creating new combinations for re-envisioning design, the value of aesthetics in technology, planetary interconnectedness, and flower power. I'm going to put this up.
Or the stunning aesthetics of our shows, the sets, the lights, the costumes?
um so talk about Aesthetics um uh everyone know who this
how to balance aesthetics and function. And together we designed a few tabletop pieces.
And so I was building myself to have that moment to create that aesthetic experience for myself that I felt was reminiscent of what I knew of applied Indigenous aesthetics . Where it's not in a white cube on a white box, in some other building somewhere where you don't necessarily have access to.
they believe that looks and aesthetics are kind of the only thing that matters in life. Um and on their own sort of
And you can achieve all sorts of aesthetics depending on the type of waste that you're using.
I also think that because aesthetics are bound up in emotions, this type of restorative nostalgia cannot easily be repelled or refuted.
In Dakar, I'm working with the World Bank to kind of put their infrastructure directly in the continent and not just have it in America, We don't create the aesthetics and try and solve the problem.
How the West African Standards of Aesthetics Shaped the Music of the Delta Blues." He's also the owner of the Savannah Jazz
who've delineated the standards of aesthetics .
You're more physically comfortable. It is not about the aesthetics , but it's about the symmetry.
We judge them strictly on aesthetics .
And I think you see the aesthetics .
The first in which the aesthetics of design and progressive ideas about human needs were truly united.
But this war was never about aesthetics .
Relational aesthetics to me, when I was in graduate school the first time, I wrote my thesis, and I studied what Indigenous aesthetic means, right? And the closest I found was actually Japanese aesthetics that I was about and aesthetics of the everyday and the intentionality of all that we do and applied aesthetics to our lived environment.
And the closest I found was actually Japanese aesthetics that I was about and aesthetics of the everyday and the intentionality of all that we do and applied aesthetics to our lived environment. And growing up in Espanola, where the cruise line on Sunday is everybody get in their nice car and you put on some good tunes, and you lean back,
potential, because even the aesthetics of what we see online is neat, pat, quick, sure.
And so if we're trying to alter the visual aesthetics of something, that influences our mental model, even if we're operating in the gustatory domain.
Well, aesthetics is the philosophy of beauty.
And a lot of thinking over the last century particularly around aesthetics as being closely coupled with a kind of mindful way of living.
So the critique in a nutshell is I'm talking about aesthetics as if they were democratic and democracy.
So it really depends on are you talking about aesthetics or health?
I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. So this happens to be presented to a game aesthetics . So gamification takes the aesthetics of video games to create, to offer leaderboards, rankings, goals,
And for some strange reason, architecture, I became very sensitized to it. And I decided that it wasn't just for me about aesthetics or monuments or anything like that, but it was also principally an approach problem-solving, but it's also about a kind of democratizing this knowledge to create the greatest opportunity for everyone so that architectural design is not just for an elite
The banjo is even more important in terms of aesthetics because the rhythmic syncopation of the banjo.
Sure. But the aesthetics that fed that foundation could only have come from the Western part
You can change your workout regimen to appeal to the aesthetics that you're looking for.
Exactly. Because trusting aesthetics , it's a difficult thing.
doesn't really have room for the need for art and aesthetics and why somebody would sit around doing stuff like this or take all this time and waste it
That doesn't seem to work from the visual aesthetics literature.