Contemporary Hybrid Painting: The Aesthetics of a Post-Medium Condition,

This paper considers the new ontological paradigm of contemporary art that evokes another discourse, a 'post aesthetics' that overcomes the subjective bias of modern philosophical aesthetics in favour of a primary relationship to things and their mode of presence in the world. As a result, contemporary expanded painting is shown to be a radical revision of art , a moment of ontological 'presencing' favouring spatial environments and temporal events that reveal 'what is' and 'what matters' in a contemporary techno-scientific age