Aesthetics continued

Seminar groups to consider the value of aesthetics in contemporary visual culture 


What beauty is about? - Functional, Emotion, Pretty, Neat, Fun. Pleasant things work better.
Fear effects the way the brain works.
The use of candy to make people happy easier to solve problems.
To get work done you must set a deadline taste, sound, colour, appearance - visceral level - subconscious behaviour, walking, talking.

Aesthetics - the brand of philosophy dealing with such notions as the beautiful, the ugly, the sublime, the comic, ect.
As applicable to the fine arts, with a view to establishing the meaning and validity of critical judgements concerning works of art, and the principles of underlying or justifying such judgements.