Proception
Feb 8th, 2010 by Paul Hertz
Artbrain.org is the web site of biologist/artist/theorist Warren Neidich, winner of this year’s Villem Flusser award at Transmediale. Flagging it here for future reference. Looks like a fine place for roots and berries.
Note also his artist’s site, from which I pulled a quote (my italics): “In these pictures a deliberate attempt was made to renegotiate the basic laws governing what i am calling “proception.” Perception refers to the general rules through which sense impressions are built into more complex formations in the brain and become part of memory and contemplation. Proception is the way that those impressions become projected upon the natural world and sometimes when they become part of the language of art produce an archive of the changing conditions of the mind and brain. Proception is the reversed perception and incorporates the projection of changing internal states.” (text from How Many Triangles, 2005. Site architecture doesn’t make it easy to get a direct link).
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