Tag: perception

• Everyone Likes to be a Judge: ART or NOT (Make it a Fun Holiday Game)

  If you’re familiar with David Fincher‘s, The Social Network, adapted from The Accidental Millionaires: The Founding of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal, you may remember the scene where Zuckerberg, played by Jesse Eisenberg, creates Facemash in one evening. [If you’re not familiar with the movie, click on Facemash to learn more about […]

  Dorothy R. Santos

  December 25, 2011

  Art, Art and Technology, Art History, Creative Coding | Programming, Culture Criticism, Digital Art, Internet Art, Multi Media, Neurology, Observations, Social Networking, Virtual Art

  art experience, art or not, okfocus, perception, postaday2011, ryder ripps

• The Treachery of Images

  Funny how a picture (any kind of picture) is a mere representation. I wrote a couple of posts about perception some time ago. One on eye anatomy and the other on eye anatomy related to mental capacity. So, it was great to see a Calamities of Nature comic strip paying homage to Magritte (and Foucault). […]

  Dorothy R. Santos

  August 31, 2011

  Art, Art History, Art Writing and Criticism, Perception, Philosophy

  calamities of nature, language, michel foucault, perception, postaday2011, rene magritte

• Understanding Perception, Part I – Eye Anatomy

  In contemporary art, it’s not only about the retina, which disappoints a few people I’ve spoken with over the past week (I’ve got a lively post baking in the oven! You will just have to wait and see what I’m talking about). Truthfully, I’m unable to deny the sense of sight being that my day […]

  Dorothy R. Santos

  March 20, 2011

  Art

  Art, eye anatomy, five senses, perception, postaday2011, the sense of sight

• Art E(valuation)

  As much as I would like to view art as an escape, it’s not. I use my brain (a lot) when I’m looking at art (all types). Of course, I enjoy art yet I’d like to think I glean as much as I can philosophically, psychologically, as well as artistically when attending an opening or […]

  Dorothy R. Santos

  December 29, 2010

  Art, Art and Technology, Multi Media, Neurology

  acclair neurocapital services, Art, art evaluation, art valuation, bay area, cognition, data collection, human cognitive processes, perception

• Proliferations

  Viewing works in close proximity not only invoked a strong sense of anticipation, but a participatory aspect to the actual exhibition.

  Dorothy R. Santos

  April 8, 2010

  Art, Performance and Conceptual, Visual Arts

  Art Practical, curatorial collective, environment, exhibition, OFF Space, perception, process, Proliferations, reading of art, shotgun reviews, valuation