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Behavioral Art: Introducing Ontogeny into Computation
by Judson Wright

DESCRIPTION: Making art has always been ‘costly' (money, time, political threats, survival fitness, ...). So why do we bother? It’s all part of what prevents human brains (as opposed to those of animals and computers) from being terribly maladaptive.

The key lies in (Piaget’s) constructivism. While we might intuit that meaning is conveyed via a medium/media, how then is art (e.g., the Mona Lisa) distinguished from artifact (e.g., a light bulb)? The book reconsiders the notions of ‘intelligence' and ‘communication' from a multidisciplinary array of discourses, ultimately proposing a essential role for art, within human cognition.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR: judsoN makes Behavioral Art, programming computers in order to study cognition. His software experiments/artwork, papers, music and performances have been featured extensively around the world.
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