Aesthetics

Visual culture, design movements, and artistic responses to technical mediation

3 aesthetics documented

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AI Artistry

Emerged 2015 active

Visual culture emerging from generative AI tools, encompassing machine learning-produced imagery and the surrounding debates over authorship, creativity, and artistic labor

Mediums:
generative imagerydigital artvideo+1more
Key Characteristics:
prompt-based creationalgorithmic aestheticsauthorship debates+1more

Post-Internet

Emerged 2006 active

Art and visual culture created in awareness of the network, reflecting on digital mediation, online identity, and the dissolution of boundaries between physical and virtual experience

Mediums:
digital artinstallationphotography+2more
Key Characteristics:
network awarenessdigital-physical blurringidentity performance+1more

Vaporwave

Emerged 2010 evolved

Microgenre and visual aesthetic characterized by nostalgic appropriation of 1980s and 1990s commercial imagery, early internet graphics, and Japanese design elements as commentary on consumer capitalism

Mediums:
musicdigital artgraphic design+1more
Key Characteristics:
retro-futurismconsumer nostalgiaglitch aesthetics+1more
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