Category Archives: Expanded|Extended Cognition

Digitally Extended Memory Aids within the Visual Artist’s Creative Process

Posted on November 8, 2010 by

Fuck it.  NOT to be presented at the 3rd Global Conference on Digital Memories because I still haven’t received the money for the 2010 South Florida Cultural Consortium Visual and Media Arts Fellowship. Posted this update on 03/06/2011 because I … Continue reading →

Posted in Artefact, Autobiographical Memory, Creative Process, Expanded|Extended Cognition, External Memory Aids, External Observer, Interdisciplinary Approach, Metacognition, Phenomenological Approach, Phenomenology, Verbal Overshadowing, Virtual Reality, Xhyra Graf | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Cosmoscope II

Posted on June 11, 2010 by

From Chalmers’ Locke Lectures, Oxford 2010: Definitional Scrutability: All truths logically entailed by base truths and definitions. Analytic Scrutability: All truths analytically entailed by base truths. Primitive Scrutability: All truths a priori (analytically?) scrutable from truths involving primitive concepts. ____________________________________________________________________ … Continue reading →

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Maintenance…

Posted on September 23, 2009 by

I need a place like this to go and sit for a while. It’s hard work; and simply because I haven’t been doing it regularly. [08/09/10: Still tedious because of the amount that I’ve allowed to pile up - I really have to … Continue reading →

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Sensorium

Posted on August 29, 2008 by

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ2hY6Fetw0 The quiet brings colour… and these are the colours of solitude.

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SEER

Posted on January 3, 2008 by

So, as I prepare to teach this semester I’ve been reminded that I actually have fairly important [to me] things to work on.  The [SEER] Model of Creative Practice is at best in the sketch phase. I need to take … Continue reading →

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Layers of Experience Series

Posted on February 18, 2007 by

Layers of Experience #4 Originally uploaded by Xhyra Graf. This series of nine took me about a year to complete. Mixed media including pencil, pastels, watercolour, acrylic, latex, tulle and china markers.  In the stretched and peeled back layers lies … Continue reading →

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Multiple Intelligences

Posted on February 6, 2007 by

I was reading In the Theater of Consciousness: The Workspace of the Mind by Bernard Baars yesterday.  In Chapter 3 to illustrate a point about prototypes and imagery he gave a list of words to read and asked what came … Continue reading →

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Unity of Consciousness

Posted on January 20, 2007 by

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness-unity/#ConMusUni On the other side, there are theorists who maintain not only that conscious states in a subject are unified but that they must be unified. Bayne and Chalmers (2003, p. 24) call this the unity thesis: necessarily, any set … Continue reading →

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Reflective self-consciousness & temporality

Posted on January 20, 2007 by

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/self-consciousness-phenomenological/#TemLimRefSelCon: Husserl claims that we actually do perceive melodies in opposition to an earlier view of Brentano, viz., that we construct or reconstruct such unities out of a synthesis of mental acts (e.g., perception of the current note plus memoryof … Continue reading →

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Noesis

Posted on January 18, 2007 by

[Realizing the value of this thing.  I finished the detailed outline/chart of the paper including how many pages each section would take. Looking through the blog reminded that I had left something out] Although I’m just adding another ‘elaborate’ post, … Continue reading →

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