Enformation, system and art; art in the big data age

Big Data is precisely changing our understandings, learning, memory, system of thought and finally, slowly but radically, our common sense. Like other information technologies that affect human evolution, Big Data has taken its place in history as an important paradigm. It was impossible for such a powerful paradigm not to affect art, one of the oldest information technologies. This article seeks answers on how the Big Data as a socio technical model trigger changed our understanding of art and the boundaries of art, how Big Data art conceptually took a place in art history, art philosophy and epistemologically, and what the consequences of this might be. It reveals the argument that Big Data Art should be read with Burnham's system aesthetics and the Fluxus movement. In adding, the effects of Big Data technology on the art market, the art audience, the artist, and the art itself are discussed. Here, it is argued that in an environment where digital culture has an abundance of fluid images, art managed by statistics have changed the raison d'être and form of art itself. In this study, the art context of Big Data is analyzed in a multifaceted way by using the contemporary systemic understanding. For this reason, this article is a transdisciplinary study that includes related fields of society, nature and human sciences such as theory of art, philosophy, sociology, sociology of knowledge and socio technical. In this direction, theories, and concepts of thinkers such as Ludwig Von Bertalanfy, Claude E. Shannon, Norbert Wiener Marshall Mcluhan, Niklas Luhmann, Deleuze and Guattari, Foucault, Jack Burnham, Walter Benjamin, Jean Baudrillard and contemporary thinkers Viktor Mayer Schönberger 's approaches were used. Key words: Big Data, System Theory, Cybernetics, Information Theory, System Aesthetics