Episode #86: Levi - How understanding art is social and cognitive
04/24/22 • 11 min
talkPOPc Participant Levi talks about how understanding art is social and cognitive with Resident Philosopher Carolina Flores at our spring Gallery Conversation Event outside of Postmaster's Gallery.
Timestamps
- 00:10: Introductions, favorite things about Art and engaging us
- 01:05: What do we learn after rationalizing our responses to Art? Seeing how other see and sharing perspectives to get to know other people
- 02:00: Why cultural artifacts exist? What's special about art versus the news or some other stimulus? It's more confined, concise and intentional
- 03:45: Good art is polarizing and allows people to engage with ideas they'd otherwise avoid or with ideas they deeply enjoy. Gives us perspective on people that normal interactions can't
- 05:00: Horror movies, not wanting to engage with the negativity, but it's still art! Just art that takes us to an emotional space we don't enjoy.
- 07:40: Engaging with other's notions of art. Taking on their perspective and getting past self-limits. Immersive theater and the experience of immigrants that we can connect to
- 10:05: Artwork taking on a life of its own. An entity within interaction, an expanded idea of what we can engage with in the art world
talkPOPc Participant Levi talks about how understanding art is social and cognitive with Resident Philosopher Carolina Flores at our spring Gallery Conversation Event outside of Postmaster's Gallery.
Timestamps
- 00:10: Introductions, favorite things about Art and engaging us
- 01:05: What do we learn after rationalizing our responses to Art? Seeing how other see and sharing perspectives to get to know other people
- 02:00: Why cultural artifacts exist? What's special about art versus the news or some other stimulus? It's more confined, concise and intentional
- 03:45: Good art is polarizing and allows people to engage with ideas they'd otherwise avoid or with ideas they deeply enjoy. Gives us perspective on people that normal interactions can't
- 05:00: Horror movies, not wanting to engage with the negativity, but it's still art! Just art that takes us to an emotional space we don't enjoy.
- 07:40: Engaging with other's notions of art. Taking on their perspective and getting past self-limits. Immersive theater and the experience of immigrants that we can connect to
- 10:05: Artwork taking on a life of its own. An entity within interaction, an expanded idea of what we can engage with in the art world
Previous Episode
Episode #85: Johny - The aesthetics of anime: classical art, expression and anime's sophisticated narratives
Timestamps:
- 00:10: Introductions
- 00:30: Classical art, anime, and expression
- 01:15: The power of imagination in anime. Exaggeration of the real world.
- 02:30: Bleach, powers, discipline and going beyond the possibilities of the real world
- 03:35: Does enchantment inform the look and aesthetic of anime, or is it just the stories?
- 05:00: Anime as reality on steroids vs Western cartoons as impoverished versions
- 05:35: The importance of lessons in anime. Consequences, responsibilities and more sophisticated narratives from the real world.
- 08:00: Heroes, inspiration and cost.
Next Episode
Episode #87: Will - Russia and the plight of art under totalitarianism
Timestamps:
- 00:10: Introductions, and art under dictatorship
- 01:05: Dictatorship destroys creativity and art is a sensitive item that symbolizes changes in society. Art becomes stagnant under dictatorial rule
- 01:55: The beginnings of dictatorship and stagnancy in Russia. A unique and simplistic style, not outstanding
- 02:50: Criticisms of non-individual art and propagandistic messaging. A contradiction of terms, impossible to have complicated messages and individual messages under dictatorship
- 03:55: Russian artists, and the posthumously published art. When you cannot speak about things, your thought is limited. Loss of ability.
- 04:40: Verbal expression as a means of embodiment of thought. If you write something down, it gets a special form of clarity. Just thinking is not necessarily enough
- 05:50: Costs of not being able to think and the lasting generational impact. Do we get these things back the moment we are free? People tend to catch up when they have the freedom to do so
- 07:00: Russia now as a copy of Western works. The same TV shows, films, books and cheap imitations.
- 08:00: Summarizing the chat.
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