The title of this text is an allusion to Rosalind Krauss’s essay "Sculpture in the Expanded Field." She locates sculpture on a structural map between (not-)architecture and (not-)landscape and is able to classify the very different "sculptural" phenomena of the 1970s. I want to p...

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1. Verfasser:	Schröter, Jens 1970- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	[2023]
Schlagworte:	Krauss, Rosalind E. > 1941- Plastik Ästhetik Virtualisierung Computerkunst
Zusammenfassung:	The title of this text is an allusion to Rosalind Krauss’s essay "Sculpture in the Expanded Field." She locates sculpture on a structural map between (not-)architecture and (not-)landscape and is able to classify the very different "sculptural" phenomena of the 1970s. I want to propose a kind of systematics to relate the sculp-tural to the virtual, as defined in the field of digital technologies. The central argument will be that digital technologies allow, among other things, the construction of virtual models of entities, meaning mathe-matical descriptions without materiality. Computers can, in this sense, construct virtual models of sculpture, which are mathematical descriptions of spatial objects. In that sense, there is a fundamental sculptural dimension to (certain types of) computer graphics. I will further discuss the notion of digital modernism. My thesis is that the worn-out paradigm of describing art as a reflection of medium specificity can have a comeback with digital technologies, since these are able to construct virtual models of media. With this mal-leable virtual media, questions regarding medium specificity can be posed anew. Finally, I will come back to Krauss’s systematics of sculpture in the expanded field and try to develop a sketch of a similar systematic—of sculpture in the digitally expanded field.
Beschreibung:	Illustrationen
ISBN:	978-3-11-077505-1