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LOCATION:4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
SUMMARY:What is art? Arts Immersion five-year report\, Chaos & Complex
  Systems Seminar\, Russell Gardner\, Jr.\, Medical College of Wisconsi
 n
DESCRIPTION:For five years\, a group called Arts Immersion (AIm) met m
 onthly in a variety of venues to discuss questions involving art: What
  is art broadly speaking\, in all its form? How does it relate to othe
 r forms of creative activity? How do various forms interact\, intertwi
 ne\, transmute? Why do people do art?  Who are participants under what
  personal and social circumstances? What about art careers? How do peo
 ple begin and continue? What is good art? How does audience come into 
 play? What are non-art works and non-artists? How does art relate to s
 pirituality and religion?<br><br>
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\nThe coordinator had a c
 areer involving facets of academia\, psychiatry and think tank problem
  exploration\, and left a salaried position to move to Madison and do 
 art full-time\, at first mostly visual art and now mostly writing. Alo
 ng the way he also found himself pondering the issues raised by this p
 revalent human activity\, issues not addressed in other available foru
 ms in an exploratory open-minded fashion. Eventually spin-off smaller 
 groups selectively explore more focused areas\, such as religion\, spi
 rituality and art by concentratedly reviewing relevant books\, or a wr
 iting support group.<br><br>
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\nThe following represent his 
 conclusions that were not arrived at via group problem solving\, but r
 ather represent my individual thinking and conclusions.<br><br>
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 <br>
\n1.     Art stems from a person's creativity that may take a myr
 iad of forms from cooking to crafts to high end visual art featured in
  museums to music to architecture\, landscape design to evanescent re-
 arrangement of natural settings and going to extremes of composing by 
 oneself\, participating in jam sessions\, performing\, listening. Call
 ing it art versus creative expression depends on cultural endorsement 
 and group definition.<br><br>
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\n2.     Audience-involvement
  counts as even listening\, watching\, reading\, or hearing fragments 
 of productions on the radio or television.<br><br>
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\n3.    
  &quot\;Significance experiences&quot\; that characterize the lives of
  saints or religious figures also pervade the histories of artists and
  creative scientists. Knowing about the behavior of patients or histor
 ical figures with temporal lobe seizures informs this discussion. This
  also relates to the &quot\;pleasure&quot\;\; of doing art\, and other
  reinforcing features.<br><br>
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\n4.     Ancillary features 
 of art also shape\, guide and motivate the artist(s) such as scholarly
  explorations\, personal therapy\,  spiritual realizations\, and missi
 ons such as amplifying nationalism in war-fever\, religious fervor\, q
 uests for peace.
URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=3076
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