It has been around for a while, but The New Aesthetic is a nascent art movement that warrants observation.
It covers a wide range of genres and aspects to it, but ultimately it is about how the 'hand of technology' is a creating a truly modern reality. And nothing captures this best than photography.
The best definition of what its all about is a brief visit to James Bridle's blog - one of leading curators of the movement.
However, Matthew Battles, a contributor to Metalab, a project of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, also gives a good definition:
New Aesthetic is a collaborative attempt to draw a circle around several species of aesthetic activity—including but not limited to drone photography, ubiquitous surveillance, glitch imagery, Streetview photography, 8-bit net nostalgia. Central to the New Aesthetic is a sense that we’re learning to “wave at machines”—and that perhaps in their glitchy, buzzy, algorithmic ways, they’re beginning to wave back in earnest.
Some of the best photography examples of this aesthetic is Google surveillance genre by Jon Rafman at 9-eyes:
(Photo credit: Jon Rafman at 9-eyes)
