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Aesthetic practices employ a double-hinged movement in the way they refer to connectivity. On the one hand, it seems as if connectivity in its purely functional orientation towards communicating through digital media is in itself responsible for having produced aesthetic practices and their social fields of action. On the other hand, it is precisely these aesthetic practices which, in the field of contemporary culture, elaborate the desiderata of connectivity beyond the territorial gaps they already mark out in the social and cultural sciences.

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Nicolaj van der Meulen (Prof. Dr.) is head of the newly founded ¯Institut Ästhetische Praxis und Theorie® at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts - Northwestern Switzerland. Jörg Wiesel (Prof. Dr.) is head of the newly founded ¯Institut Ästhetische Praxis und Theorie® at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts - Northwestern Switzerland.

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