Reading - EXPERIENCE MIT Press

Key Words:

Projection - Cognitive ability to move temporally and create understandings of what is to come.

Kinetic - of or relating to the motion of material bodies and the forces and energy associated therewith

heuristic - allowing for someone to discover someting for themselves

'Cognition implies a degree of plasticity for human psychophysical processes; in this sense, it can be as active and adaptable as consciousness itself.' p8

'This book exists to complicate that model. [nervous system as a series of inputs and outputs being sent to the central processor or brain] Experience is our heuristic, and we intend both to provoke experiences in these pages, and to examine how culture and technology deeply weave the texture of human consciousness.' p15

'David Mather explores in the practice of Italian Futurists, bridging the cosmos and our own afferent/efferent nerve signals [input/output]; the Berliners' abstractions invited projection, proving that humans could construct meaning and experience from minimal perceptual cues.' p22

'Art demonstrates to science the broad political and cultural context forming what sense we make of experience' p26

Adorno's model replaces notions of  art as representation or 'expression'. Art is not the semiotic conveyance of a fixed message-It is a range of marks, indices, rituals, and materials that humans make, arguably uniquely, to simulate perception. We do these things to draw upon prior layers of experience, in order to produce, paradoxically, the genuinely new'. p26

Gives relevance to the artistic research of experience in the modern world without extensive scientific data collection. p28

Starting to map kinetic energy on a flat surface using artistic mediums. p61

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