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Performance & Science

Performance & Science PERFORMANCE & SCIENCE It has been said that today’s avant-garde is the world of science. The development of perception, speech, and emotion, and the experience of space and time have been reconstituted in the vocabularies of the new discoveries. Contemporary approaches to performance and the study of audience perception naturally link to an investigation of the brain and consciousness as do many technological explorations. Taking neuroscience and physics as a starting point, in what way does your thinking about artistic process or creation of work now reflect new frontiers in these areas? Is it an important concern in your work? Marc Downie and Paul Kaiser The Physics of Drawing Gives the Art of Drawing Much of Its Expressive Power Pencil in hand, you have to channel your vision and impulses through the material laws of the medium; under the varying angle and pressure of your hand, your marks emerge from the crumbling of the graphite against the grain of the paper. Looking at the finished drawing afterwards, viewers sense the prior interplay of your hand and eye with pencil and paper, for they themselves have had the experience of drawing pictures before and in any case live in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art MIT Press

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Publisher
MIT Press
Copyright
© 2012 Performing Arts Journal, Inc.
Subject
Performance & Science
ISSN
1520-281X
eISSN
1537-9477
DOI
10.1162/PAJJ_a_00075
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PERFORMANCE & SCIENCE It has been said that today’s avant-garde is the world of science. The development of perception, speech, and emotion, and the experience of space and time have been reconstituted in the vocabularies of the new discoveries. Contemporary approaches to performance and the study of audience perception naturally link to an investigation of the brain and consciousness as do many technological explorations. Taking neuroscience and physics as a starting point, in what way does your thinking about artistic process or creation of work now reflect new frontiers in these areas? Is it an important concern in your work? Marc Downie and Paul Kaiser The Physics of Drawing Gives the Art of Drawing Much of Its Expressive Power Pencil in hand, you have to channel your vision and impulses through the material laws of the medium; under the varying angle and pressure of your hand, your marks emerge from the crumbling of the graphite against the grain of the paper. Looking at the finished drawing afterwards, viewers sense the prior interplay of your hand and eye with pencil and paper, for they themselves have had the experience of drawing pictures before and in any case live in

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PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art – MIT Press

Published: Jan 1, 2012

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