10 Years of Computation, Communication, Aesthetics and X
“The xCoAx conference captures the spirit of an international movement where both art and science fill the sails of human exploration. The “X” represents the unknown, and all things that defy easy categorization, systemization, or rationalization.
In this speculative essay we explore a particular aspect of that X, the Dionysian in art, and why art in academia seems skewed towards the Apollonian.
One of the hallmarks of our contemporary synthesis of
art, technology, and critique is a radical interdisciplinarity. Practitioners not only draw from multiple disciplines, they connect those disciplines together, and those bridges in turn become growing territories in their own right. Some will go so far as to claim there is no difference between art and science at all.
In considering the Dionysian X we will apply a model of human engagement that precedes our division of knowledge into disciplines.”
http://bookof.xcoax.org/thebookofx.pdf
