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Aesthethics of Failure. 1
First post in the Space Collective. I hope I don't disappoint as posting some thoughts in this community next to some brilliant people makes one feel very humble.
For those not aware of what the Aesthetics of Failure means, and using my own words, I'd describe it as the end result of a failed attempt to produce a desired outcome from a repetitive or mechanized process.
In a society that tends to perfection and standardization, any product not perfect is automatically discarded right after its conception. Whether it's something physical as a piece of furniture, a gadget or a car, to something abstract as one idea, a political party, one's identity or the mere conception of society, everything is filtered out.
I have been doing some research and I haven't found proper interest in the matter except from loose articles, but no deep exploration of such phenomena. John Maeda mentions it in his blog briefly after a trip to Japan in 2007; there's a flickr group under that name with quite some random images and no apparent consistency; and a different approach from the musical point of view, which in my opinion focuses more in the nature of the sounds produced by electronic instruments rather than in the true nature of music.
Within SpaceCollective I'll try to throw some light at this phenomena from my perspective, both from a theoretical discourse as well as from a plastic perspective. Being neither an academic nor an artist, I hope we can use this platform to collectively construct and identify this aesthetic theory.
Álvaro
For those not aware of what the Aesthetics of Failure means, and using my own words, I'd describe it as the end result of a failed attempt to produce a desired outcome from a repetitive or mechanized process.
In a society that tends to perfection and standardization, any product not perfect is automatically discarded right after its conception. Whether it's something physical as a piece of furniture, a gadget or a car, to something abstract as one idea, a political party, one's identity or the mere conception of society, everything is filtered out.
I have been doing some research and I haven't found proper interest in the matter except from loose articles, but no deep exploration of such phenomena. John Maeda mentions it in his blog briefly after a trip to Japan in 2007; there's a flickr group under that name with quite some random images and no apparent consistency; and a different approach from the musical point of view, which in my opinion focuses more in the nature of the sounds produced by electronic instruments rather than in the true nature of music.
Within SpaceCollective I'll try to throw some light at this phenomena from my perspective, both from a theoretical discourse as well as from a plastic perspective. Being neither an academic nor an artist, I hope we can use this platform to collectively construct and identify this aesthetic theory.
Álvaro
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