Aesthetics of Resolution

Abstract

The presentation will focus on what Gerald Nestler calls an „Aesthetics of Resolution.“ This conceptual approach is based on the following characteristics: a post-disciplinary approach to conception and practice in which art is the non-disciplinary practice within a larger assemblage of knowledge production; a conception of the figure of the artist that moves from an individual towards a human-nonhuman force field that creates hybrid forms of collective; the (forensic) use of data technologies as distinct forms of “technowledge”; and a turn within contemporary art towards an aesthetics in the field of consequences in which the political is intrinsically built into the artistic-collective endeavour. The talk will exemplify this approach with a project on algorithmic finance that introduces the figure of the renegade as an indispensable expert witness, and will close with an outlook to other fields of investigation.