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Dissertation presentation + script

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academic textabation, art, artist writings, creativity, research

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artists’ writings, research ramblings, writings

Script * designed for Zoom. Because this is a script for verbal defense presentation and citations were provided in diss doc, they are not included here, though key scientists are referenced. Additionally, this script is not in paragraph form, but...

Research interests

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academic textabation, mundane ramblings, research ramblings

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questions, research

Creativity—the capacity to make novel and meaningful contributions that influence a field—is commonly attributed to people rising to prominence in the sciences and arts. Creativity is generally considered advantageously adaptive for a society. Amongst noteworthy creative achievers such as scientists,...

The conviction that painting is the right profession grows stronger and stronger in me. Writing is the only other thing I still feel attracted to. -Paul Klee

Artists’ predilection for writing: Anne Truitt

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Artist predilection to write, artist quote, research

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artist quotes, Quote

…sitting up in bed every morning and writing for as long a time as seemed right. The only limitation I set was to let the artist speak. My hope was that if I did this honestly I would discover how...

Anouk De Clercq: when artists write

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Artists quote, artists writings, Quote, research

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artist quotes, artists’ writings

There is the room of the author and there is the room of the reader. Somewhere in between those rooms, things happen: an encounter somewhere between the lines, in that in-between space. There is a correspondence between inside and outside,...

why write: Gary Indiana — clarifying questions, scrambling for survival

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artist, artist quote, artist writer, gary indiana

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artist quotes, artists’ writings

why write and thoughts on writing? Gary Indiana I didn’t know what I was writing or why I was writing it until I’d worked on it for a couple of years; it was a fumbling process of clarifying certain questions...

why write: jenny holzer — be of use, understandable content

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artist quote, artist writings, artist-writer denial, why write

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artist quotes, research

Why Write? Jenny Holzer: (image: tate) ‘I wanted to see if I could make anything that would be of use to or have some kind of meaning for a general audience, people on their way to lunch who didn’t care...

“I am writing for the same reason I am making art”

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artists writings, donald judd, Quote

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artist quotes, artists’ writings, research ramblings, writings

Donald Judd “i write...”1

Being scientist (or artist) is not necessarily an indicator of creativity nor smarts

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Quote, research

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artist quotes, research, writings

“In contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.” — James Watson of Watson and Crick. Bahahahaha!0

James Bridle [why artists write–when we write, we reconfigure the world.]

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artist quote, artist writings, artists, research

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artist quotes, research

I got a Master’s degree in Computer Science by writing language rather than code – I didn’t submit any code in fact, I was terrible at programming. But I could write about it, I understood it, and I understood that...

Xu Bing [why artists write: a case of transference]

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artist, artist writings, Quote, research

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artist quotes, research

Xu Bing 2006 excerpt from An Artist’s View I began working on Book from the Sky at a time when I was constantly in a very anxious and confused mood. This mood was related to the “cultural fever” that was...

EW: DISCLOSURE/AFFECT

Donald Judd, “Warhol: You have to conclude that things that shit shit, talk shit, and look like shit are shit. Or shit, talk shit, and look like shit are shit or are shit that shit, etc., or are shit that craps, talk shit, and look like shit. Or are craps that shit, talk, crap, and look like shit are shit.”

(Pulled from https://hyperallergic.com/356878/the-artist-as-acerbic-critic-donald-judds-writings/ )

Henry Moore: Artist’s concerns about the risks of writing

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artist quote, artists writings, intellect-openness, writing liability

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artist quotes, artists’ writings, research, research ramblings

Liabilities associated with writing expressed by sculptor Henry Moore in his own writings (1937). Specifically, he suggests that writing about art and art processes will inherently shift the artist-author social identification from artist to theorist. Of course, despite this concern...

Trait level Intellect: visual artists like scientists display active engagement with ideas, cogitating, analytic thinking styles

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creativity, openness-intellect, personality, poster, spsp, visual artists writings

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artists’ writings, research, writings

presented at SPSP 2/2019 researchgate 0

The Creep Theory

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artists writings, Henry Flynt, Quote

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artists’ writings

Henry Flynt, artist, musician, philosopher and activist. Below is ‘Creep’ a chapter from his book Blueprint for a Higher Civilization. When Helen __ said I was “such a creep” at Interlochen in 1956, her remark epitomized the feeling that females...

To write is to organize a relationship. –artist, Marcel Broodthaers

Words are events, they do things, change things.

They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it.

They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Binary bunk of bottom up or top down thinking style is shit ~ donald judd

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artists writings, donald judd, thinking style

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“That prose was only emotional recreation and Fried’s thinking is just formal analysis and both methods used exclusively are shit.” — Donald Judd, Complaints: Part 1 Ha. Of course he was just excoriating art critics’ writing and their capacity for...

Anxiety and insight correlation not all that surprising

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research, writings

Consider the mental itch, that low level of anxious arousal that drives the impulse for problem solving. Or perhaps, ponder the relationship of the insightful fellowiana, her breaches of conventions in pursuit of alternate understanding with inherent risks of unbelonging...

Thesis in the form of a four minute thank you address script ;)

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research, writings

The great thing about a four minute thank you address script is no citations! Bam. Plus it forced me to generate a sort of rough outline of my dissertation in plain english. — Being a recipient of Alan & Lee...