Abstract
AbstractA judgement of aesthetic in arts is, by sheer consensus, a daunting task that requires evaluation of a whole host of endogenous and exogenous cultural factors. A few of them can actually provide very useful hints in tackling foundational problems in Information Science in a more natural setting than what is usually provided by a typical engineering stance. This interaction can however work the other way about, as instruments from the Information and Computer Science toolkit may help in focusing the less explored features of art and its evaluation. When all the social, historical, hermeneutical and political considerations are stripped from the living flesh of the piece, we lose most of what differentiates creation from description. This notwithstanding, or maybe exactly for this reason, measuring structures is still an important element of artistic judgement, and the folk concept that beauty stems from some sort of order/chaos relationship, formalized by G. D. Birkhoff as the aesthetic measure, req...
Highlights
Aesthetic theories seem to be a very good place to test the possible, fruitful interaction between the new tools provided in the last decades by Computer and Information sciences on one side and a few deep questions asked by Humanities, which apparently seem to be quite impervious to the enquiries carried on with the means of traditional scientific methodology
The very limited aim of the present paper is to test this kind of interaction between fuzziness and art, using as a starting point the reconciliation of two old and seemingly contrasting approaches to the problem of aesthetic evaluation
The present paper is epistemologically based on some recent reflections of the authors 46, stimulated by the attempt at answering to such challenging questions, of epistemological type, as the ones Lotfi Zadeh posed by shifting from the basic idea of fuzzy sets as an extended characteristic function, to linguistic variables and subsequently to other levels until arriving at the more recent ideas of computing with words and taking perceptions as a starting point for scientific investigations
Summary
Aesthetic theories seem to be a very good place to test the possible, fruitful interaction between the new (and technically and conceptually innovative) tools provided in the last decades by Computer and Information sciences on one side and a few deep questions asked by Humanities, which apparently seem to be quite impervious to the enquiries carried on with the means of traditional scientific methodology. Arnheim will be taken as a sort of banner of the request that, when trying to applying (important) results obtained in a specific field of investigation outside the domain in which they have been conceived and developed, we have the duty to carefully control the way in which these results and techniques are used and managed in the new domain This great care must be extended from the control of the correct application of the technical aspects in the new field to a careful analysis of conceptual questions, in order to scrutinize whether the use of the informal notion to which the theory is applied corresponds correctly to the intended meaning of the same notion in the field in which it was informally used before. In order to open a wide discussion, we have deliberately chosen a colloquial style, and reduced to a minimum the technical details
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