Art in an age of augmentation

“Instagram shows us what a world without art looks like.” –Theses in Tweetform, #19

Ricky D’Ambrose, in “Instagram and the Fantasy of of Mastery,” adolefulessay in The Nation, examines what he sees asa fundamental shift in aesthetics:“the transitionfrom art, long vaunted as a special, and autonomous, area of sensuous intelligence, to creativity, to which art can only ever be superficially related.” Society’s venerationof the overlay, thetemplate, thefilter, is on the rise, inexorably it seem...