Art as Experience in an Age of Distractions with Dawna Schuld

In 1934, education philosopher John Dewey stipulated that “Those who are called artists have for their subject-matter the qualities of things of direct experience.” This talk explores whether Dewey's argument still holds, and asks how such claims about the nature of aesthetic experience pertain in a digitally mediated environment. Indeed, so-called immersive technologies that segment reality into actual, augmented, and virtual states of being can contribute to a form of collective forgetting that we are biological bodies inescapably immersed in physical space. These circumstances warrant a reconsideration of twentieth-century modern sculpture as a means of asserting and reclaiming the primacy of direct experience.

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