Aesthetics?

It may be simply because of the long history that has been conditioned into part of my conception of art, but I feel that aesthetics are relevant. If beauty, even going against it, is part of the conversation at all traditional aesthetics still have a role. They cannot be taken out, and I am for progressing the model, but wary or curious of where the new relevance stems from. Which in turn may be due to the uncertainty that comes with paradigm shifts. The conversation in class was very stimulating though, and I think important to us as artist and art educators. Aesthetics is a term thrown around without definition. We have the task of putting words to the visual.