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kathy

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

so many options to delve into artists writings

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research ramblings

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research ramblings

there are so many points of entry, all likey to be in play, and so little time creative performance and achievement, and creative cognition processes working memory inhibitory control flexibility… selective attentional focus behavioral measures idea generation (novel and useful)...

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

The moment

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mundane ramblings, poetic

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personal lyric, writings

Though the scent of wet pine needles is afloat and the falls just out of sight thrum the air with soothing rhythms and the birds morning song catches and rides above the thrum, my mind drifts snagged up inwardly and...

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...

Consequential head scratching

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mundane ramblings

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mundane ramblings, writings

[Unproofed/ramble warning]. When the cascade of consequences of incessant people watching and headscratching combines with being artist produces a phd, I find this to be an unexpected perk not predicted by early-life performance. The downside of incessant thinking and questioning...

Freud cracks me up with his wit:: he also discloses the risks of his practice (disclosure:: affect labeling in terms of identifying stimuli)

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Quote, writings

Freud in his introductory lecture series on the psychology of errors and psychoanalysis: “…should I find anyone among you who does not feel satisfied with a cursory acquaintance with psychoanalysis, but who would like to enter into a more enduring...

Unuseful tab-ulation

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You close the text and see what had already been scratching at the back of your mind–your plethora of tab-ulating has rendered them meaningless. It merely became an act of diddling the pages, a form of self pleasuring. Sigh.0

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/ )

Despite doc diss phase, occasionally i get to work in real space.

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wow (she says with mild sarcasm), i converted three pallets into two of a different shape. may seem a bit boring but breaking a wrecking bar, skill saw, sawzaw, and nail gun felt damn good. contemplated the joys of a table saw,...

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

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