Session Title
Gut Check: Art or Just a Bad Bit of beef
Start Date
4-10-2012 1:15 PM
End Date
4-10-2012 2:45 PM
Session Description
Jeffrey Adams and Cam Choy, The Kentucky School of Craft, Laura Makowski, Independent Artist, Chicago, IL Jadams0429@kctcs.edu
In blink, Malcom Gladwell, author of the The Tipping Point, takes as his subject the notion of “thin slicing”, our ability to discern significant events from a very narrow period of experience. Gladwell asserts that spontaneous gut decisions are often more insightful as predictors of events and outcomes rather than more thoughtful and considered reasoning. How do we make those leaps of intuition when it comes to observing and digesting what we perceive as art or non art ? We all have experienced instinctive spilt second reactions to objects. Often, they fall either within or beyond our willingness to define them as a product of the creative act.
Marcel Duchamp coined the phrase “infra-thin”, a term for measuring the almost imperceptible margins of difference between two seemingly identical items. This panel seeks submissions from those willing to take on the issue of when and/or how an object crosses over from its civilian role into that of a functioning artwork.
Gut Check: Art or Just a Bad Bit of beef
Jeffrey Adams and Cam Choy, The Kentucky School of Craft, Laura Makowski, Independent Artist, Chicago, IL Jadams0429@kctcs.edu
In blink, Malcom Gladwell, author of the The Tipping Point, takes as his subject the notion of “thin slicing”, our ability to discern significant events from a very narrow period of experience. Gladwell asserts that spontaneous gut decisions are often more insightful as predictors of events and outcomes rather than more thoughtful and considered reasoning. How do we make those leaps of intuition when it comes to observing and digesting what we perceive as art or non art ? We all have experienced instinctive spilt second reactions to objects. Often, they fall either within or beyond our willingness to define them as a product of the creative act.
Marcel Duchamp coined the phrase “infra-thin”, a term for measuring the almost imperceptible margins of difference between two seemingly identical items. This panel seeks submissions from those willing to take on the issue of when and/or how an object crosses over from its civilian role into that of a functioning artwork.