Aesthetics of serendipity: muta-morphosis

Germen, Murat (2011) Aesthetics of serendipity: muta-morphosis. International Journal of Art, Culture and Design Technologies (IJACDT), 1 (2). pp. 25-37. ISSN 2155-4196 (Print) 2155-420X (Online)

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Abstract

Creativity is stochastic and assumptive in nature. The importance of randomness in the creative process must not be ignored, underestimated, or intentionally disregarded in a condescending way. Notions of chance, randomness, or unpredictability are important, especially when it comes to artistic creation. In addition to these notions, serendipity can be seen as the expected contribution for making expedient discoveries by coincidence or by chance. To put serendipity into work, a need exists to accumulate a list of questions that need solving, acquaintance with already existing answers, and their use in daily life. Only when this knowledge is present, ‘chance’ can take its part in establishing the perfect milieu for the ‘problem’ and the ‘solution’ to find each other. If there is a great deal of knowledge accrued about the problem and the requisites for the solution, chance adds the final piece to the puzzle. Traditional ‘prescriptive, authoritarian and rather conventional’ aesthetics vs. a new ‘generative, irregular, unprescribed’ aesthetics can then be examined.
Item Type: Article
Subjects: N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR
T Technology > TR Photography
N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general
Divisions: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences > Academic programs > Visual Arts & Communication Design
Depositing User: Murat Germen
Date Deposited: 04 Jan 2012 11:33
Last Modified: 26 Apr 2022 08:51
URI: https://research.sabanciuniv.edu/id/eprint/17958

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