I’ve been thinking a lot about this week’s topic and the reading about public art. I’m unsure how to process it all and the idea it has generated in me. So, I thought I would write an extra submission and invite comments. The idea of public art as “appropriate” is a complex one. It’s certainly […]
KEYWORDS: Synthesis Create Vision Connect Patience Passion Is this art? I’m not completely sure. I think it is. It’s certainly what might be called, according to Ellen Dissanayake, “postmodern expression”. In her piece from our week 3 lesson, Ms. Dissanayake suggests that “postmodernists point out that any “truth” or “reality” is only a point […]
In our assigned reading, (Lessig, L. (2008). Comparing Cultures. Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy (pp. 84-116). New York: Penguin Press HC, The.), I was willing to simply disagree with the author, until I reached page 99. On page 99 he lied to support a point. He began with a nasty […]
Beverly Jones thesis is clearly stated in the abstract, found on the first page of the assigned reading. “New forms of art and technology are frequently cast in the mode of old forms, just as other aspects of material and symbolic culture have been.” “The effects of origins and prior practices in both technology and […]
I have only just in the last few months begun to use Siri on my phone to search the Internet. I know I’m a little behind. At the same time, I started using the built-in microphone for texting. Speaking into the phone, reading the translation, correcting errors, and then sending the text, is a whole lot […]
I define spirituality as the experience of a thing or a place or a person at a level of intuition. But that’s not really all of it. Spirituality is a place in me. It’s a location and an address where the essence of me genuinely lives. It’s the authentic place in me. It’s the unbridled, […]
The reading came into clarity for me on p. 35. In his work there, (Grey, A. (2001). Art as Spiritual Practice. The Mission of Art (1st ed., pp. 205-233). Boston & London: Shambhala.) the author said, “Meaning in art is the transmission and reception of symbolic density.” I understood that as “art at several levels”, or “art […]
I had a strong and instinctive response to the title and initial question for this week. “Is food art?” All of the reading from this week and both of the video presentations could not dissuade me one bit from my initial instinct. They did, however, give me a wealth of thought reference and analysis for […]
Denis Dutton’s central point and general theme in his TED talk video, “A Darwinian theory of beauty”, that “we find beauty in something done well” was similar to Ellen Dissanayake’s central view of “art for life’s sake”. The thing she called “palaeoanthropsychobioligical” as an idea that “art must be viewed as an inherent universal (or […]