The Internet is the
one and only uncensored place left on the earth. All these
phenomena deserve to be understood as testimony to the change of
the condition of human experience, and in the context of change
from a literacy-dominated art to an art of many partial
literacies, of mediations, and of relatively vague notions of
value and significance.
Making and perceiving
Nature and culture meet in artistic practical experiences of
human self- constitution, as they meet in any other human
experience. What makes their meeting extraordinary is the fact
that what we see, or hear, or listen to is the expression of
their intersecting. Through art, humans project sensorial, as
well as cognitive, characteristics. The experience of
structuring a category of artifacts, defined through their
aesthetic condition, and the complementary experience of
self-definition through aesthetically relevant actions
constitute the realm of the artistic. In their interaction with
objects and actions resulting from such experiences, individuals
conjure meaning as they define themselves in respect to the
experiences in a given context. Like any other practical
experience, the production of art belongs to the pragmatic
framework. We are what we do: hunting, running, singing,
drawing, telling stories, creating rhymes, performing a play. In
their respective doings, artists identify themselves through
particular aptitudes and skills: rhythm, movement, voice, sense
of color, harmony, synchronism, contrast.
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