Genetic Criterion of Art

Authors

  • Sidey Myoo Department of Aesthetics Institute of Philosophy Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26485/AI/2023/25/4

Keywords:

criterion of art, intentionality, process of creation, institutionalism, work of art

Abstract

The paper aims to present the criterion of art, which is the act of accepting the status of a work of art by the artist after the completion of the creative process. The analysis includes a distinction concerning the interpretation of a work of art as conducted in a diversified and multi-directional manner from a possible discussion about the issue of whether a given object or process is a work of art. The article contains a thesis about the impossibility of depriving a work of art of this status. The discussion refers to the concept of the creative activity, the reception process, the concept of Artworld and the institutional definition of art, recognizing the latter as too far-interfering with the nature of art and containing suggestions on relational understanding of a work of art.

Author Biography

Sidey Myoo, Department of Aesthetics Institute of Philosophy Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

Sidey Myoo is a scientific pseudonym which comes from the net name adopted by prof. dr hab. Michał Ostrowicki in 2007, in Second Life. Sidey Myoo is a philosopher; he works at the Depart­ment of Aesthetics, Institute of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University and the Department of Theory of Media Art of the Faculty of Intermedia at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. He is interested in aesthetics treated as a theory of art, mainly in relation to contemporary art, including new media art. Since 2003, he has been analysing the philosophy of the Web and phe­nomena such as immersion, interactivity, telepresence, telemacity, hybridization, immateriality, identity and artificial intelligence. He stresses the importance of the development of technology which creates or transforms the whole human world. In 2006, he used the notion of virtual realis (later: electronic realis) which has become a basis for ontoelectronics, i.e., ontology focused on the analysis of electronic reality treated as a sphere of being.

In 2007, he founded the Academia Electronica (www.academia-electronica.net) – a virtual part of the Jagiellonian University, acting on the model of university in the virtual worlds: Second Life and Spatial, where official academic courses and conference presentations are carried out.

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Published

2023-12-13

Issue

Vol. 25 (2023): How do artists think?

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Articles

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