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The Sublime beyond Generative Art The Nature of Code
Fall 2006
Kenny Kyungmi Kim
A human perspective and feeling about Nature.
(written) of very high quality and causing great admiration Fear
Meaning in Aesthetics
The sublime (from the Latin sublimis (under the lintel, high, exalted)) is the quality of transcendent greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical or artistic. The term especially refers to a greatness with which nothing else can be compared and which is beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement or imitation. This greatness is often used when referring to nature and its vastness.
Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant both investigated the subject. Both men distinguished the sublime from the beautiful. Later writers tend to include the sublime in the beautiful. (compare Burke’s Essay on the Sublime and Beautiful, 1756, and Kant's Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime, 1764).
The first study of the value of the sublime is the treatise ascribed to Longinus: On the Sublime. For Longinus, artistic genius was the skill of metaphor. Prior to the eighteenth century sublime was a rhetoric term predominately relevant to literary criticism.
TheDumpster (Launched Valentine’s Day,2006) http://artport.whitney.org/commissions/thedumpster/dumpster.shtml
Golan Levin’s work
combines equal measures of
the whimsical, the provocative,
and the sublime in a wide variety of online,
installation and performance media.
Water.Wind.Fog
http://www.nedkahn.com
small works vs big nature
http://www.setpixel.com/content/?ID=waterfall
Humans take inspiration and create beauty in spite of fear of Nature.
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