Category Archives: Ritual

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 →

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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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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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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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Sensate Intuition

Posted on October 22, 2006 by

Need to clarify in relation to techne or ‘skill’ knowledge. Focus to the idea that cognitive processing engages with skill knowledge in a dynamic interrelatedness. Use the sport example as both contrast and comparison since flow experience can be explained … Continue reading →

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Samma Sati

Posted on October 21, 2006 by

Chapter VI Right Mindfulness (Samma Sati)The Buddha says that the Dhamma, the ultimate truth of things, is directly visible, timeless, calling out to be approached and seen. He says further that it is always available to us, and that the … Continue reading →

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samadhi

Posted on October 21, 2006 by

The commentaries define samadhi as the centering of the mind and mental factors rightly and evenly on an object. Samadhi, as wholesome concentration, collects together the ordinarily dispersed and dissipated stream of mental states to induce an inner unification. The … Continue reading →

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Wisdom found where?

Posted on October 21, 2006 by

Chapter VIII The Development of Wisdom At the cognitive level, which is its most basic sphere of operation, ignorance infiltrates our perceptions, thoughts, and views, so that we come to misconstrue our experience, overlaying it with multiple strata of delusions. … Continue reading →

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