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- Title
The Mechanical Art of Laughter.
- Authors
Rolez, Anaïs
- Abstract
Our aesthetic experiences are today conditioned by machines, which operate at multiple levels: at the moment of conception of a work, at the moment of conservation and distribution of the work, and at the moment of its contemplation. For art today, it is no longer a theoretical question of asking whether the machine can act with freedom in the sense of a game that remains as of yet open-ended—or if humans themselves can still so act in a world entirely conditioned by technology—because the brute fact is that machines are becoming ever more autonomous, and humans ever more dependent upon them. For some artists, therefore, the ideas of autonomy and sacralization are best addressed, not in the posing of serious questions, but rather through the subversive activity of enticing the machine to reveal its comic nature—and wherein we discover, with Bergson, the essentially rigid and mechanical nature of the humorous.
- Subjects
MEC art (Art movement); LAUGHTER in art; AESTHETICS of art; FREEDOM &; art; AUTONOMY (Philosophy)
- Publication
Arts (2076-0752), 2019, Vol 8, Issue 1, p2
- ISSN
2076-0752
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/arts8010002