Abstract
This paper considers Art’s engagement with the socio-ecological systems in operation in the world. Drawing from both environmental and art history, this paper employs the Deleuzean concept of the fold to suggest three overlapping periods of ecological-systems awareness over the past sixty years. This paper demonstrates how we have shifted our attention from a material engagement with the Earth to a primary engagement with systems which describe and simulate the Earth. This shift in attention to secondary information and an enfoldment within systems, defined as the Post-Systems Condition, manifests in the aesthetic quality of the eerie and a profound sense of saudade or longing for a lost nature.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 124 |
Journal | Arts |
Volume | 8 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 24 Sept 2019 |
Keywords
- saudade
- eerie
- virtual
- systems
- fold
- nature
- simulation