SpART was a one-year part time artist residency whose goal was to engage members of a recreational community center in making artistic expressions of the sports they participated in Over 200 participants actively enga...SpART was a one-year part time artist residency whose goal was to engage members of a recreational community center in making artistic expressions of the sports they participated in Over 200 participants actively engaged and over a thousand members of the public saw and watched their art works. Overall, participation was enthusiastic. The project demonstrated how art could be introduced in daily operations of a sport-focused community center. A video of sporting memories highlighted the benefits of sport in building community, friendships and maintaining health. Space and time were limitations.展开更多
There seems to be a renewed interest in the last couple decades in studying and writing about consciousness. Consciousness may be the most difficult question humans are trying to resolve. Yet eliciting transcendence, ...There seems to be a renewed interest in the last couple decades in studying and writing about consciousness. Consciousness may be the most difficult question humans are trying to resolve. Yet eliciting transcendence, a phenomenon that rises above, or goes beyond, normal limits of consciousness, has been an identified goal for many artists in the past, possibly even in cave art. Drawing on works shown in the 2006 Art Gallery of Hamilton exposition called Sublime Embrace： Experiencing Consciousness in Contemporary Art and in the 2002 Houston Contemporary Art Museum 2002 show called THE INWARD EYE： Transcendence in Contemporary Art, the author will explore the biological, psychological, cultural, and spiritual facets of transcendence. Perhaps, with the renewed symbiotic relationship between the sciences and art, the convergence of digital media, and the emergence of global communication networks, we are at the verge of art that will create a change, an alteration in our consciousness, and an altercendent state. What this change will be is yet a mystery.展开更多
文摘SpART was a one-year part time artist residency whose goal was to engage members of a recreational community center in making artistic expressions of the sports they participated in Over 200 participants actively engaged and over a thousand members of the public saw and watched their art works. Overall, participation was enthusiastic. The project demonstrated how art could be introduced in daily operations of a sport-focused community center. A video of sporting memories highlighted the benefits of sport in building community, friendships and maintaining health. Space and time were limitations.
文摘There seems to be a renewed interest in the last couple decades in studying and writing about consciousness. Consciousness may be the most difficult question humans are trying to resolve. Yet eliciting transcendence, a phenomenon that rises above, or goes beyond, normal limits of consciousness, has been an identified goal for many artists in the past, possibly even in cave art. Drawing on works shown in the 2006 Art Gallery of Hamilton exposition called Sublime Embrace： Experiencing Consciousness in Contemporary Art and in the 2002 Houston Contemporary Art Museum 2002 show called THE INWARD EYE： Transcendence in Contemporary Art, the author will explore the biological, psychological, cultural, and spiritual facets of transcendence. Perhaps, with the renewed symbiotic relationship between the sciences and art, the convergence of digital media, and the emergence of global communication networks, we are at the verge of art that will create a change, an alteration in our consciousness, and an altercendent state. What this change will be is yet a mystery.
