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    Whereas mainstream theories of environmental art and sustainable development consider art as a domain suitable for the application of environmentally friendly procedures, such as the circular economy, trash management and digitization, this research article focuses on the internal development of the autopoetic and self-referential art machine, which generates an art-specific sustainability. The circular environmental economy coexists with the circular art economy, which implies changes in the ae…Read more
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    Art State, Art Activism and Expanded Concept of Art
    Cultura 18 (2): 55-73. 2021.
    Contemporary post-aesthetic art implies an expanded concept of the work of art that also includes political functions. Beuys’s concept of social sculpture and Marcuse’s idea of society as a work of art can be complemented by Abreu’s project of a musical orchestra as a social ideal and the Neue Slowenische Kunst transnational state formed from the core of art. These concepts are close to the views of Hakim Bey, with D’Annunzio also touching upon them with his State of Fiume, for which he wrote th…Read more
  • Text as Ride
    Center for Literary Computing, West Virginia University Press. 2016.
    Text as Ride re-situates our understanding of new media in the social contexts of mobile apps, thrill rides, walking in the city, 3D cinema, video games, and DJ culture. Rather than a continuation of print-based literature by other means, this book considers electronic literature as a practice that foregrounds new media's specificity. Janez Strehovec deals with post-hypertext eLiterature that has become conceptual: Moving beyond hyperlinked storytelling, it deals with digital materiality and bou…Read more
  •  3
    What distinguishes this book from other monographs on the social specificity of contemporary art is, first and foremost, the point of departure in art service, rather than in stable artwork as the artefact. The introduction of art service as a key concept of contemporary art enables a novel understanding of art as a cognitive, high-skilled, and performative practice oriented towards tasks, research, knowledge-making, and problem-solving activities. As a cognitive practice, art works hand in hand…Read more
  • The Form as Filter and Reference
    Phainomena 66. 2008.
    In information society of post-Fordist labor we are coming across the new media art projects that occur at the intersection of contemporary art, networked economy, new politics, technoscience and new lifestyle. The new media art pieces are often only one click away from in the Web embedded sites and portals of political organizations, big corporations and e-commerce, meaning that we are facing a different situation as used to be common within the modernist paradigm based on differentiation of ar…Read more
  •  52
    Today we come across new media art projects as post-industrial art services that occur at the intersection of contemporary art, new economy, post-political politics (activism, hacktivism), technosciences and techno lifestyles. The artwork is not a stable object anymore, it is a process, an artistic software, an experience, a service devoted to solving a particular (cultural and non-cultural) problem, a research, an interface which demands from its user also the ability for associative selection,…Read more
  •  2
    Polemični razpravi Ernsta Blocha in Gyôrgyja Lukâcsa sta pomenili vrhunec znamenite diskusije o ekspresionizmu, v kateri je leta 1937 in 1938 sodelovalo v moskovski reviji nemških intelektualcev Das Wort 15 avtorjev s 17 prispevki. Jedro polemike so temeljna vprašanja estetskega koda umetnosti 20. stoletja, razpeta med dediščino in umetniško zgodovinsko avantgardo »izmov«. Konflikt med Lukacsevimi stališči, povezanimi z njegovo estetiko socialističnega realizma, in Blochovimi, zavezanimi teoriji…Read more
  •  2
    Estetika v obdobju medijske in telematične kulture
    Filozofski Vestnik 10 (2). 1989.
    Na usmeritev estetiških teorij danes vpliva tako kriza filozofske sistematike kot spremembe v sami zunajumetniäki resničnosti. Estetika sicer še ima kompleks filozofije, vendar pa distribucija moči znotraj filozofskih sistemov zanjo že ni več presodna. Bolj kot s svojo filozofičnostjo se zato ukvarja z analizami postmoderne estetizirane resničnosti, v kateri je realnost stopljena s svojimi medijskimi slikami. Tradicija Kant-Schiller-Marcuse- Joseph Beuys postaja pri tem zopet aktualna. Produktiv…Read more
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    Closeness that Grows Towards the User
    Glimpse 2 (1): 27-32. 2000.
  •  18
    Algorithmic Culture and E-Literary Text Semiotics
    Cultura 10 (2): 141-156. 2013.
    This paper aims to explore the notion of algorithmic culture in relation to new media and electronic literature. Such a culture considers human as being immersed in smart technology, which with its code and algorithms defines individual’s behaviour and decision-making, modes of socializing and participation, experiencing and perception. The following lines unveil the paradigm shift that involves semiotic crossings between human and machine languages. In order to do so, it addresses some crucial …Read more
  •  13
    Contemporary art based on new media is situated at the intersection of art-as-we-know-it, smart technologies, digital and algorithmic culture, networked economy, politics, as well as bio and techno sciences. Contemporary art enters into intense relations with these fields, including interactions, adoption of methodological devices and approaches, changes of the areas of activity, hybridization and amalgamation. This text explores those features of contemporary life and culture which are affected…Read more
  •  24
    Cycling as Reading a Cityscape: A Phenomenological Approach to Interface-Shaped Perception
    Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology 10 (2): 1-11. 2010.
    This essay attempts to assess whether the perceptual issues posed by the contemporary interface culture, and the constant attitude shift demanded by the new media between the “natural” and the “as if” modes, might be considered a significant challenge for phenomenological aesthetics as understood in terms of Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of perception. To demonstrate how the use of a particular interface profoundly shapes the form and structure of an activity as well as enabling perception of a …Read more
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    Augmented Reality, Augmented Perception
    Glimpse 3 (1): 73-78. 2001.