Casting became an aesthetic medium in itself, a kind of performance art, in which process and product merged, the one as important as the other.
The result is a shapely visual essay that suggests the versatile role hair has played in African life, as a status emblem, an aesthetic medium and an organic material with ritual associations.
But a few museums have started to look to the future, based on the realization that the Internet can be an aesthetic medium as well as an information resource.
B3 Neediest Cases B4 ARTS E1-10 Art in a Digital Age A few museums have started to look to the future, realizing that the Web can be an aesthetic medium as well as an information resource.
It is a shapely visual essay on the versatile role hair has played in African life, as a status emblem, an aesthetic medium and an organic material with ritual associations.
To an older generation, digital technology is foreign, suspect terrain, just as video was 30 years ago; for many young artists it is a rich and ductile aesthetic medium.
Founded in 1966 by editor Paul Williams, Crawdaddy! was the first magazine devoted to the notion of rock as the crucial aesthetic medium through which the emergent counterculture articulated its dreams and aspirations.
Cooking as an aesthetic medium has an estimable contemporary history, from Gordon Matta-Clark's restaurant project "Food" in SoHo in the 1970s, to Rirkrit Tiravanija's meals-as-exhibitions in the 1990s, to Susan Cianciolo's "Run Restaurant" at Alleged Gallery in Chelsea in 2001.
Such representations were only possible in an aesthetic medium of imagined possibilities like poetry.
His presentation of religious faith in an aesthetic medium at least provides an opportunity for his readers to make their own leap of faith, by appropriating with inward passion the paradoxical religion of Christianity into their own lives.
