Why Friending The Aesthetic?

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The bloggers and surf clubs discussed at the Net Aesthetics 2.0 panel follow a similar model. But instead of stoically re-creating the art world online, they are opening themselves to a galaxy of experience that could potentially be considered art, while at the same time subversively slipping in their own content.

The solution to The Institutional Theory Of Art is to recognize artworks as members of the artworld. - Rhea Myers.

we would agree that the opacity of the aesthetic offers some much needed resistance to the kinds of transparency increasingly demanded in so-called "knowledge work" - Art & Language.