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of art. But I prefer not to be authoritati ve in making – I like chance.   From: NetBehaviour On Behalf Of Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour Sent: Friday, June 7, 2019 6:06 PM To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity Cc: Ruth Catlow Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] 97 questions about art

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:) :) :) Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Sunday, June 9, 2019, 2:16 pm, Edward Picot via NetBehaviour wrote: As I was walking the dog yesterday I had a vision of the awards ceremony. The elephant is sitting next to you at one of those big round tables, looking exceedingly

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As I was walking the dog yesterday I had a vision of the awards ceremony. The elephant is sitting next to you at one of those big round tables, looking exceedingly uncomfortable in a rented tuxedo, grumpily munching buns and bananas and necking down large quantities of champagne straight from

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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

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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’

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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

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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.

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Wonderful! And elephants have been taught to paint, btw. This extends in all sorts of directions; our friend Rachel Rosenkrantz has bees contributing to the design of an acoustic guitar - Best, Alan On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 10:51 AM Edward Picot via NetBehaviour <

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Michael, I agree with what others have said, these are extremely thought-provoking, and almost any one of the questions would be material for a couple of hours of discussion. Great material for a book too! My favourite one is 'If I collaborate with an elephant to make an artwork is that

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creativity Cc: marc.garrett Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] 97 questions about art   Hi Michael,   Thanks for posting this - I read it as a list first,   and then began choosing which questions I know that I could answer (or imagined I could),   and then slowed down for the other

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Hi Marcyour mail makes me very happy -exactly the sort of response I would hope to elicit including the ambiguity about what the text actually *is* :)It seems to me one of the things it is, is several lifetimes' research programmes in aesthetics also think ( tentatively) that the questions (

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Szpakowski ; NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity Cc: marc.garrett Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] 97 questions about art Hi Michael, Thanks for posting this - I read it as a list first, and then began choosing which questions I know that I could answer (or imagined I could

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Hi Michael, Thanks for posting this - I read it as a list first, and then began choosing which questions I know that I could answer (or imagined I could), and then slowed down for the other questions which involved either me altering the question or going numb or feeling blank - which i

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I love the fact that you're moved to answer one Ruth!cheersMichael On Wednesday, June 5, 2019, 7:38:13 PM GMT+1, Ruth Catlow wrote: 55. A work of art moves me to tears. You find it clumsy and ridiculous. Can westill be friends?  Definitely! On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 11:26 PM Michael

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55. A work of art moves me to tears. You find it clumsy and ridiculous. Can we still be friends? Definitely! On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 11:26 PM Michael Szpakowski wrote: > :) I’m glad. michael > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone > > On Monday, June 3, 2019,

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:)     I’m glad.     michael Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Monday, June 3, 2019, 11:14 pm, Paul Hertz wrote: 41. If I am deeply moved by a work of art, believing it to be by the artist C andthen discover that it was actually by the forger D does this invalidate myfeelings? a fave, --

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41. If I am deeply moved by a work of art, believing it to be by the artist C and then discover that it was actually by the forger D does this invalidate my feelings? a fave, -- Psul On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 3:51 PM Michael Szpakowski wrote: > I have a short text in the new volume of Borderless

[NetBehaviour] 97 questions about art

I have a short text in the new volume of Borderless Philosophy .https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/e2a905_df53424e9f454e9080b97f54dbc370f3.pdfHave a read if you have a mo & are so inclined! warmest wishesMichael ___ NetBehaviour mailing list