[NetBehaviour] evening chorus and bass recorder

2019-06-07 Thread Alan Sondheim
evening chorus and bass recorder http://www.alansondheim.org/venue.jpg --- riparian venue outside mystic connecticut http://www.alansondheim.org/bassnature.mp3 --- wonderful accompaniment to evening chorus with bass recorder +++ +++ Details about Attachment #1 : Text scraped, scrapped :

Re: [NetBehaviour] 97 questions about art

2019-06-07 Thread Alan Sondheim
on another level, studies have shown that animals, even insects, have a sense of symmetry, aesthetics, etc. from bowerbirds to butterflies, art exists without the word and social contraptions etc. - Alan On Fri, 7 Jun 2019, Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour wrote: Makes me wonder... What clev

Re: [NetBehaviour] 97 questions about art

2019-06-07 Thread Michael Szpakowski
Indeed ! We should avoid getting above ourselves. Taking care of a small, smart and affectionate dog the last couple of years has made me revise some fairly deeply held assumptions. I’m avoiding indicating how I think the questions might be answered but I think the question of ‘intentionality’ i

Re: [NetBehaviour] 97 questions about art

2019-06-07 Thread Michael Szpakowski
Edward- thanks for the very kind comments! I feel I might be heading towards a ‘database’ definition of art - ‘art is a practice about which the following,but not only the following , questions may be meaningfully posed’ ( although of course that is all sorts of problematic and in my heart I rem

Re: [NetBehaviour] 97 questions about art

2019-06-07 Thread Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour
Makes me wonder... What clever thing, might elephants boast amongst themselves, to have taught the occasional human to accomplish? On Thu, 6 Jun 2019, 23:40 Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour, < netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote: > Wonderful! And elephants have been taught to paint, btw. T