Research Colloquium at SFU’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology in Surrey presents

Don Ritter

November 21, 2007 at 2:30 pm

SFU Surrey Campus, Room 5380 (5th Floor Galleria)

Title: The Ethics of Aesthetics

Abstract:

This lecture presents the relationships between ethics, aesthetics, and new media art. The presentation is based on “The e Decision,” a book by Don Ritter that uses an observational approach to the aesthetics of artworks with an emphasis on works created with new media technologies. The content of “The e Decision” is derived from the fields of art, psychology, philosophy, aesthetics and new media technologies, and from intensive interviews with new media curators from North America, Europe and Asia. Specific topics will include the process of aesthetic judgment, influences and consequences of aesthetic judgments, and the ethics of aesthetics. Writing of “The e Decision” received supported from Pratt Institute (New York City), Banff Centre (Canada), ZKM (Germany), and the Canada Council.

Bio:

Don Ritter is Canadian new media artist and a writer on aesthetics. Since 1986, his work has been exhibited in North America, Europe, and Asia, including SITE Santa Fe, Ars Electronica, Sonambiente Festival (Berlin), Metronom (Barcelona), Images du Futur (Montreal), European Media Art Festival, and Artfuture 2000 (Taiwan). Ritter has degrees in Fine Arts and Psychology/University of Waterloo, Electronics Engineering Technology/Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, a Masters in Visual Studies/Massachusetts Institute of Technology/CAVS/Media Lab, and he studied film at Harvard University. He has held tenured professorships in art and design at Concordia University (Montreal) and at Pratt Institute (New York City). He lives in Berlin, Germany.

http://aesthetic-machinery.com