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  • Chapter 4 - Describing Art Through the Lens of Complex Dynamic Systems

  • from Part I - Art as a Complex Process
  • Paul van Geert, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
  • Book:
    A Complex Systems View on the Visual Arts
    Published online:
    20 March 2025
    Print publication:
    03 April 2025, pp 73-92

  • Summary

    Chapter 4 provides a definition of the visual arts through the lens of complex dynamic systems. Art is defined as (1) a temporally contingent, iterative process involving many interacting components; (2) a distributed and situated process of enactment; (3) an emergent phenomenon; (4) a unique and authentic visual embodiment of self-determined artistic meaning; (5) an embodied meaning that exploits meta-stable, critical state dynamics of values; (6) a pluriform complex dynamic; and (7) a process governed by a dynamic of presentation, re-presentation, and reference. Finally, definitions of art are presented as critical state attractors in artworld systems (all the technical concepts are explained in Chapter 3).