The “scientifically” beautiful: from the “zero-dimensional” to a physics of the senses

Abstract

In the present paper, the author traces down the path which eventually led contemporary theorists of new media aesthetics to proclaiming their mottoes like “everything should become aesthetic”. Zero-dimensional images as the object of early theories in media research (Vilém Flusser) and images as the maps of possible ways of reasoning in the thinking of French theorists (Jean-François Lyotard) are shown to be the elements of the soil giving origin to a specific interpretation of the aesthetic which regards every act of data capture as being of direct relevance for art whenever there occurs a choice of elements and an intensifying of the senses.