Long time. I was thinking about when you said ( what holds them together) or some thing along that. Maybe perspective - maybe nothing holds them together but from a vantage they are understood as cohesive. If a coin was on its edge on a table between us - you,d understand it to be heads and I\'d understand it to be tails. And we would both be right. Maybe there is a fourth implied element - that is a single perspective in relation to the three (viewer or some thing with the ability to (?) see Read More
Long time. I was thinking about when you said ( what holds them together) or some thing along that. Maybe perspective - maybe nothing holds them together but from a vantage they are understood as cohesive. If a coin was on its edge on a table between us - you,d understand it to be heads and I\'d understand it to be tails. And we would both be right. Maybe there is a fourth implied element - that is a single perspective in relation to the three (viewer or some thing with the ability to (?) see be in time and place) D
Yes, it was a long time. But obviously the gestation period worked. This is pretty brilliant. This is the crux of the nominalist perspective: if the world is composed only of individual entities, the problem then does become how do those individual entities get combined into larger wholes? It is an old metaphysical problem. If the world is composed of (atomic) individual units, how do we characterize those units? Goodman wanted to refer to them as \"qualia\" - used by Goodman to mean an entity Read More
Yes, it was a long time. But obviously the gestation period worked. This is pretty brilliant. This is the crux of the nominalist perspective: if the world is composed only of individual entities, the problem then does become how do those individual entities get combined into larger wholes? It is an old metaphysical problem. If the world is composed of (atomic) individual units, how do we characterize those units? Goodman wanted to refer to them as \"qualia\" - used by Goodman to mean an entity that was a particular color at a particular place in a particular moment of time. Of course that definition raises other questions such as what precise slice of time, etc. But leaving aside criticisms, there is the problem you discuss: what\'s the glue? How does one qualia combine with others to make larger wholes? An art historian looks at the landscape and says \"German romanticism\"; a botanist lists genus and species. Again, you got Goodman\'s point: it\'s relativism. We\'re all right.
This was a room crammed with strong and turbulent trialogues. Maybe even a roadshow of adventurous ideas that gave me hope, in that when we apply ourselves there isn\'t a problem we cannot solve with an open mind. We each acted as a tonic, where the old best memes started to get peculiar enough to see that language is something like a message in a bottle, corked and bobbing in an uncharted ocean. And somehow... in our task through the visual world, and of art, beauty and expression, knocks Read More
This was a room crammed with strong and turbulent trialogues. Maybe even a roadshow of adventurous ideas that gave me hope, in that when we apply ourselves there isn\'t a problem we cannot solve with an open mind. We each acted as a tonic, where the old best memes started to get peculiar enough to see that language is something like a message in a bottle, corked and bobbing in an uncharted ocean. And somehow... in our task through the visual world, and of art, beauty and expression, knocks on our door- to remind us to seek and find the barriers built against it.
Hmm. What\'s the word? Elegiac? Beautiful? Wonderful comments, and I am so happy that you experienced that. I like the idea that \"we each acted like a tonic\". Not only was Tonic a great music venue in NYC, it is a great concept when applied to people\'s influence on each other\'s idea formation. When we talk to each other and convey our thoughts about something it affects the listener\'s own thought formation. We construct the structure - in Goodman\'s phrase \"world-building\" - by adding Read More
Hmm. What\'s the word? Elegiac? Beautiful? Wonderful comments, and I am so happy that you experienced that. I like the idea that \"we each acted like a tonic\". Not only was Tonic a great music venue in NYC, it is a great concept when applied to people\'s influence on each other\'s idea formation. When we talk to each other and convey our thoughts about something it affects the listener\'s own thought formation. We construct the structure - in Goodman\'s phrase \"world-building\" - by adding our thoughts to others\' through the consensus and momentum it builds. A \"tonic\" on each other is perfect! And like tonic water, it is a little hard sometimes to swallow - those other people\'s thoughts! But always good to hear!
Art and philosophy are made for each other. It\'s nice to be a part of an informal discussion with great minds, of whom I would not normally have the opportunity to have a dialogue with.
Yes, I think they are made for each other in that each is ultimately pointing at abstract ideas. We don\\\'t have any way to grab onto those sorts of ideas unless we symbolize them visually or verbally. But the symbolization is always incomplete and it is never the final point. The art and the philosophy are then both means to an end: the conveyance of ideas. This project points to that end.
The opening for the exhibition was so informative and interesting. The ability to have discussion about real issues and dialogue organized around the substance of the work was refreshing!!! and mad the experience memorable.
Sorry it has taken me this long to answer this - the broken leg (but remember: I made that jump over the fence!) is only partly responsible. I wanted also to respond to what you said at the event itself, as that made me think about the project in a broader sense. you told me that this kind of art project had not only aesthetic and intellectual meaing for you, but spiritual as well. You thought the emphasis on the connections between people and the value that was placed on listening to others Read More
Sorry it has taken me this long to answer this - the broken leg (but remember: I made that jump over the fence!) is only partly responsible. I wanted also to respond to what you said at the event itself, as that made me think about the project in a broader sense. you told me that this kind of art project had not only aesthetic and intellectual meaing for you, but spiritual as well. You thought the emphasis on the connections between people and the value that was placed on listening to others brought the project out the realm of \"look at me\". I was happy to hear that, and had not really thought of it in those terms, though that is exactly what I was (subconsciously?) intending. All art is about something: and my interest is to focus people\'s attention on that something and then to emphasize and value their ideas and contributions.
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