Future of Art in a Digital Age

Mel Alexenberg is an artist, educator, writer, and blogger working at the interface between art, science, technology, and culture. His artworks can be seen at www.melalexenberg.com. They explore interrelationships between the post-digital age and Jewish consciousness, space-time systems and electronic technologies, participatory art and community values, responsive art in cyberspace and real space, and blogart and wikiart. His artworks exploring digital technologies and global systems are in the collections of more than forty museums worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Jewish Museum in Prague, and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Alexenberg  was professor at Columbia University, Bar Ilan University, and Ariel University, head of Emunah College School of the Arts in Jerusalem,  head of the art department at Pratt Institute, dean of visual arts at New World School of the Arts in Miami, and research fellow at MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies. 

He is the author of the books: Through a Bible Lens: Bibliical Insights for Smartphone Photography and Socail Media (HarperCollins), Photograph God: Creating a Spiritual Blog of Your Life, The Future of Art in a Postdigital Age: From Hellenistic to Hebraic Consciousness (Intellect), Educating Artists for the Future: Learning at the Intersections of Art, Science, Technology, and Culture (Intellect), The Future of Art in a Digital Age (Intellect),  Dialogic Art in a Digital World: Four Essays on Judaism and Contemporary Art (in Hebrew), Aesthetic Experience in Creative Process (Bar Ilan University Press), and with Otto Piene, LightsOROT: Spiritual Dimensions of the Electronic Age (MIT and Yeshiva University Museum). He has contributed chapters to the books: Inter/sections/Inter/actions: Art Education in a Digital Visual Culture, Interdisciplinary Art Education: Building Bridges to Connect Disciplines and Cultures, Semiotics of Visual Culture: Sights, Signs, and Significance, and Community Connections: Intergenerational Links in Art Education, Routledge Handbook of Digital Writing and Rhetoric. Born and educated in New York, Alexenberg earned degrees at Queens College, Yeshiva University, and New York University (interdisciplinary doctorate in art, science, and psychology). He lives with his wife, artist Miriam Benjamin, in Ra'anana, Israel.

Introduction - Postmodern Paradigm Shift: 'From Hellenistic to Hebraic Consciousness' - Page 9 - Mel Alexenberg 1. Semiotic Perspectives - 'Redefining Art in a Digital Age' - Page 33 - Mel Alexenberg 2. Morphological Perspectives - 'Space-Time Structures of Visual Culture' - Page 65 - Mel Alexenberg 3. Kabbalistic Perspectives - 'Creative Process in Art and Science' - Page 109 - Mel Alexenberg 4. Halakhic Perspectives - 'Creating a Beautiful Life' - Page 143 - Mel Alexenberg