Update Nov. 6/09
I have just learned of the tragic death of Dr. David Crawford, my adviser on this project. He was a huge inspiration and pushed me in the right direction to go as far with this text as I did. He will be sorely missed.
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"Collection and Dissolution" is my master's thesis. It is an attempt to deal with the contradiction of writing about your own art. Instead I ended up writing about my creative process and how I think it works.
This spiraled out into a much more broad and loose discussion, sticking to my long-held interests in quantum mechanics and the limitations of consciousness. It is quite research-heavy but not in the sense that fine arts theses usually are; most of my sources are from the field of science.
I think, as a whole, it's a pretty strange document that is an overt challenge to how we normally write about art in the academic field.
I have laid out my argument pretty straight here, propped up by big block quotes. If there's a conceptual or scientific question, somewhere in this text is probably the answer.
The emotional meaning of the work is not discussed, though, as I thought it would be inappropriate to bring it out to the open—it's hiding in there, though.
There are also detailed descriptions of my two thesis artworks: "The Silence in Between" and the performance project "You Are Dissolved."
You can read the abstract and the entire document over at Scribd or just look at it here:
I have just learned of the tragic death of Dr. David Crawford, my adviser on this project. He was a huge inspiration and pushed me in the right direction to go as far with this text as I did. He will be sorely missed.
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"Collection and Dissolution" is my master's thesis. It is an attempt to deal with the contradiction of writing about your own art. Instead I ended up writing about my creative process and how I think it works.
This spiraled out into a much more broad and loose discussion, sticking to my long-held interests in quantum mechanics and the limitations of consciousness. It is quite research-heavy but not in the sense that fine arts theses usually are; most of my sources are from the field of science.
I think, as a whole, it's a pretty strange document that is an overt challenge to how we normally write about art in the academic field.
I have laid out my argument pretty straight here, propped up by big block quotes. If there's a conceptual or scientific question, somewhere in this text is probably the answer.
The emotional meaning of the work is not discussed, though, as I thought it would be inappropriate to bring it out to the open—it's hiding in there, though.
There are also detailed descriptions of my two thesis artworks: "The Silence in Between" and the performance project "You Are Dissolved."
You can read the abstract and the entire document over at Scribd or just look at it here: