Anticipation, Innovation and Aesthetics

The spring 2009 class in Aesthetics of Interactive Arts produced a video with this assignment. Mihai Nadin, who teaches this class, defined the assignment. In short: innovations trigger aesthetic creativity. The students are asked to document the process in their own YouTube videos.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• anticipation
• innovation
• creativity
• aesthetics

[drnicomartini]

By claiming that the spoon has anticipated GPS, you are artificially forcing a state consciousness/awareness into an inanimate object. This is made to suggest that the spoon... one of the first tools... somehow has taken into account the potential evolution of itself into a Global Positioning System. Really? A spoon can't think, it's not conscious and can't logistically ANTICIPATE anything... you're claiming that the spoon, in its apparent infinite wisdom, new that GPS was coming. Really? Wow.

[nadinm]

your are entitled to your comments. they addressed to the CLASS that worked on the project. They bring to the attention of the class your thinking. This is just fine with me. Learning benefits from viewpoints expressed by as many as possible.

[cambreling]

sangarth: Thank You! You are right. Let us answer the invitation and post an answer to this YouTube project. The students seem to learn a lot!

[sangarth]

anticipation is cool...the students are clever.