Art, Media Design, and Postproduction

15Aesthetics of Negation

The Selective Process

Premise: This chapter evaluates the selective process that leads to contradiction or conflict in the production of art.

The creative process in art and media design has been discussed throughout this book from many points of view in relation to remix including chance, randomness, material sampling, cultural citation, music, noise, sound, visual music, video mashups, and time-based media installations.¹ One thing that all these approaches share is the selective process by which artists and designers choose particular elements over others to present ideas and concepts. An image, design, or object of art has aesthetic power not because of what one sees, but what one does not see. What follows is an ...