[ExI] Post-contemporary art and Cognitive strategies

[Natasha Vita-More]

At 05:08 PM 6/2/2007, you wrote:
>At 03:54 PM 6/2/2007 -0500, Natasha wrote:
>
> >Can anyone translate this statement by António
> >Cerveira Pinto  into plain speech?
> >
> >"What I meant by "cognitive issues" is not
> >related so much with "cognitive processes" as to
> >"cognitive environments". That is: BioArt (which
> >is just a provisional safe expression to deal
> >with a much open field -- cognitive arts --)
> >will not go back to typical modern/contemporary
> >de-constructivist strategies as long as it keeps
> >close to cognitive strategies, either performed
> >by humans alone, or by humans assisted by
> >nanobots, computational networks and so on. What
> >I mean by "cognitive" in relation to art is the
> >need that post-contemporary art keep in mind
> >that the new techne that post-contemporary is a
> >part of, cannot runway from knowledge and cognitive strategies anymore."
>
>"Pull your head out of your ass and think a bit."


Ha-ha!  From the academic to the mundane. 
:-)  However crisp and cogent, your phrasing 
simply will not work for the book's essay.

Natasha

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inside the circle and everything outside the 
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