UPCOMING
COORDINATES OF AESTHETICS, ART AND CULTURE X
Digital media, internet and AI
in contemporary aesthetics, art practice and art theory
November 13 and 14, 2025
Slovakia, Prešov, University of Prešov
Final CFP - will be published soon.
COORDINATES OF AESTHETICS, ART AND CULTURE X
Digital media, internet and AI
in contemporary aesthetics, art practice and art theory
November 13 and 14, 2025
Slovakia, Prešov, University of Prešov
Final CFP - will be published soon.
RECENT
AESTHETICS FORUM SERIES
Slovak Aesthetics Forum with Vítor Guerreiro (University of Porto, Portugal)
UNDERSTANDING ART: EXPRESSION, IMAGINATION, AND ARETAIC STRUCTURE
Wednesday, December 11 · 4:00pm (CET)
Study room no. 91 of University of Presov and online.
Google Meet link: https://meet.google.com/cuk-qtzy-unp
TALK DESCRIPTION:
In this session I will focus on imaginative understanding as underlying the production of and engagement with works of art. I draw on R. G. Collingwood’s view of expression as definitive of ‘art proper’: an ongoing, overall successful struggle against the ‘corruption of consciousness’ (understood as a special kind of cognitive and moral failure). I then suggest paying attention to the normative structure of expression thus conceived: under a Strict Aretaic Model (SAM), as opposed to a Wide Aretaic Model (WAM). Both models use the three terms of Sosa’s ‘AAA structure’, namely, aptness, accuracy, and adroitness. What defines SAM is the peculiar form that ‘accuracy’ assumes in artistic expression: as any action under WAM, expression is apt when ‘hitting the bullseye’ is due to adroitness (the virtues required for performance), but with the difference that in genuine expression we do not know what ‘hitting the bullseye’ is until we do it. The same applies to understanding the artwork: its ‘point’ is only revealed to us in first-hand understanding. Furthermore, in this view, expression and understanding are the same. Both artist and audience are engaged in shaping a perspective and making clear what the point of the work is.
The second part is devoted to show how the variantist character of SAM is in harmony with a Goodmanian view of expression and understanding, which is prima facie quite remote from a Collingwoodian approach. The purpose is to show how expression can be a cognitive achievement, directed outwards, onto the world, not to the search and manifestation of an ‘interiority’; and also to defend that the sharing of imaginative understanding is the true core of an epistemology of art.
ABOUT SPEAKER:
https://philpeople.org/profiles/vitor-guerreiro
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8399-659X
AESTHETICS FORUM SERIES
Slovak Aesthetics Forum with Vítor Guerreiro (University of Porto, Portugal)
UNDERSTANDING ART: EXPRESSION, IMAGINATION, AND ARETAIC STRUCTURE
Wednesday, December 11 · 4:00pm (CET)
Study room no. 91 of University of Presov and online.
Google Meet link: https://meet.google.com/cuk-qtzy-unp
TALK DESCRIPTION:
In this session I will focus on imaginative understanding as underlying the production of and engagement with works of art. I draw on R. G. Collingwood’s view of expression as definitive of ‘art proper’: an ongoing, overall successful struggle against the ‘corruption of consciousness’ (understood as a special kind of cognitive and moral failure). I then suggest paying attention to the normative structure of expression thus conceived: under a Strict Aretaic Model (SAM), as opposed to a Wide Aretaic Model (WAM). Both models use the three terms of Sosa’s ‘AAA structure’, namely, aptness, accuracy, and adroitness. What defines SAM is the peculiar form that ‘accuracy’ assumes in artistic expression: as any action under WAM, expression is apt when ‘hitting the bullseye’ is due to adroitness (the virtues required for performance), but with the difference that in genuine expression we do not know what ‘hitting the bullseye’ is until we do it. The same applies to understanding the artwork: its ‘point’ is only revealed to us in first-hand understanding. Furthermore, in this view, expression and understanding are the same. Both artist and audience are engaged in shaping a perspective and making clear what the point of the work is.
The second part is devoted to show how the variantist character of SAM is in harmony with a Goodmanian view of expression and understanding, which is prima facie quite remote from a Collingwoodian approach. The purpose is to show how expression can be a cognitive achievement, directed outwards, onto the world, not to the search and manifestation of an ‘interiority’; and also to defend that the sharing of imaginative understanding is the true core of an epistemology of art.
ABOUT SPEAKER:
https://philpeople.org/profiles/vitor-guerreiro
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8399-659X
Call for Participation
AI IN MUSIC – 2nd ENPM Conference 202525-27 September 2025, Strasbourg (France)
The European Network for the Philosophy of Music (ENPM) invites submissions of paper abstracts for its second conference, which will be hosted by the Centre de Recherche et d’Expérimentation sur l’Acte Artistique (CREAA) of the University of Strasbourg on September 25–27, 2025 in Strasbourg (France). The conference is organized in partnership with the Festival Musica Strasbourg, a yearly festival dedicated to contemporary music, which will take place concurrently with the conference.
The 2025 Edition of the Festival will highlight the intersections between music and artificial intelligence. The ENPM welcomes submissions on any topic in the philosophy of music. However, to foster the cooperation with the Festival Musica, the ENPM encourages submissions focused on the relationship between music and AI, from a philosophical perspective.
See more: https://enpmusic.org/announcements/
AI IN MUSIC – 2nd ENPM Conference 202525-27 September 2025, Strasbourg (France)
The European Network for the Philosophy of Music (ENPM) invites submissions of paper abstracts for its second conference, which will be hosted by the Centre de Recherche et d’Expérimentation sur l’Acte Artistique (CREAA) of the University of Strasbourg on September 25–27, 2025 in Strasbourg (France). The conference is organized in partnership with the Festival Musica Strasbourg, a yearly festival dedicated to contemporary music, which will take place concurrently with the conference.
The 2025 Edition of the Festival will highlight the intersections between music and artificial intelligence. The ENPM welcomes submissions on any topic in the philosophy of music. However, to foster the cooperation with the Festival Musica, the ENPM encourages submissions focused on the relationship between music and AI, from a philosophical perspective.
See more: https://enpmusic.org/announcements/
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RECENT PAST
The Faculty of Arts of the University of Prešov will have the honour to welcome the famous American philosopher Richard Shusterman.
Professor Shusterman's research focuses on the humanities, particularly English language and philosophy. He is one of the most influential voices in contemporary philosophical aesthetics and the emerging field of somaesthetics.
He is the Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Florida Atlantic University.
Professor Shusterman's public program during his stay in Presov will consist of two events on May 6 and 7, 2024:
6.5.2024 / 10:00 / FF PU / Classroom no. 91
Invited lecture:
SOMAESTHETICS AND THE ART OF LIVING
After briefly explaining the genealogy, aims, and structure of the field of somaesthetics, this lecture will focus on one of its central concerns: the art of living. It will discuss somaesthetics and the art of living primarily in connection with the idea of philosophy as a way of life, both with respect to its classical models and to contemporary revivals of this idea. The lecture will also examine how the art of living raises issues concerning the blurring of conventional contrasts between art and life and between the ethical and the aesthetic.
This lecture is the result of the project VEGA no. 1/0065/22 Between the past and the present of Aesthetics in Slovakia – critical reading and critical editions with regard to the historical memory and knowledge update.
* the lecture will be streamed on the Facebook profile of the Institute of Aesthetics and Artistic Culture FF PU Prešov
7.5.2024 / 10:00 / FF PU / Dean's boardroom
Screening of documentary films and discussion:
PHILOSOPHY AS A WAY OF LIFE — ON CAMERA: CINEMATIC ENCOUNTERS WITH RICHARD SHUSTERMAN
Exhorting philosophy as a way of life, Socrates eschewed the practice of philosophical writing as a corrupting distraction. But writing soon became philosophy’s privileged medium, and philosophy today is essentially practiced today as literature (writing and reading) rather than oral dialogue. To what extent and in what ways can philosophy take advantage of new media technology — not simply through the digital production of articles, books, and blogs but also through visual media? Experimentation in visual media seems especially appropriate for the philosophical field of aesthetics.
Philosopher Richard Shusterman continues the pioneering thrust of his work in pragmatist aesthetics and somaesthetics by trying to convey his message in the medium of video as part of his continued efforts to revive the idea of the philosophical life while expanding philosophy’s reach and public. Besides the videos of his experimental performance art (in collaboration with the Parisian artist Yann Toma), there is a three-part educational documentary concerning Shusterman’s philosophical work and its inspirational sources (directed by the Polish filmmaker Paweł Kuczyński). This event will screen two of those parts, with Slovak subtitles, and include Shusterman’s commentary on this project and its meaning.
This event is the result of the project KEGA č. 018PU-4/202 Innovation of teaching humanities with an emphasis on creative and experiential methods.
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