from Anna Munster... <br><br>Distributed Aesthetics, issue 7 of The Fibreculture Journal<div>Edited by Lisa Gye, Anna Munster and Ingrid Richardson</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue7/index.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue7/index.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><font face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size: 13.3px;">Rather
than try to define the terminology or taxonomy of distributed art
theories and practices we have proposed in this issue a descriptor for
the 'aesthesia' of contemporary networked encounters. Distributed
aesthetics concerns experiences that are sensed, lived and produced in
more than one place and time. This might equally be a sketch of
reconsiderations of the operations of cultural memory or of phenomena
such as endurance performances. But what we propose, through gathering
together the disparate essays in this fibreculture journal issue, is
that techno-social networks are crucially constitutive of this
distributed aesthesia. In various ways, all the texts here take up the
mode through which 'the network' – the juncture and disjunction of here
and there, you and I, social and individuated – functions as the
crucial operand in dispersing and contouring perception, art practice
and aesthetics. This issue of the fibreculture journal signals
important emerging trends and directions for critically engaged
artistic practices and theories in and of the network.</span></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size: 13.3px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size: 13.3px;">
With contributions from:</span></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size: 13.3px;">Darren Tofts</span></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size: 13.3px;">Geert Lovink and Anna Munster
</span></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size: 13.3px;">Greg Turner-Rahman</span></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size: 13.3px;">Mark Amerika</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size: 13.3px;">Simon Biggs</span></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size: 13.3px;">Vince Dzekian</span></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="4">
<span style="font-size: 13.3px;">Edwina Bartlem</span></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size: 13.3px;">Susan Ballard</span></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size: 13.3px;">
Keith Armstrong</span></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size: 13.3px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size: 13.3px;">And with thanks to the readers who assisted with comments and, as always, to Andrew Murphie
</span></font></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>"I thought I had reached port; but I seemed to be cast<br>back again into the open sea" (Deleuze and Guattari, after Leibniz)<br><br>Dr Andrew Murphie - Senior Lecturer
<br>School of Media, Film and Theatre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2052
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