Tuesday, January 27, 2009

art as epistemological aggregate

art in the purest sense is a constructivist act- meaning it manifests a theory or object as an aggregate of epistomological standpoints.

it maintains a neutrality based in an adherence to the notion that social, conceptual, cultural and theoretical realities are in constant flux.

the shifting correlates between empirical reality and perceptual reality form the framework for expression.

art seeks to engage the disparities or the shifts, as theoretical movement, between realities (a set of epistemologies)

theoretical movement




costructivism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivist_epistemology

Constructivism has roots in philosophy, education and social constructivism. Constructivism criticizes objectivism, which embraces the belief that a human can come to know external reality (the reality that exists beyond one's own mind). It holds the opposite view, that the only reality we can know is that which is represented by human thought (assuming a disbelief or lack of faith in a superhuman God). Reality is independent of human thought, but meaning or knowledge is always a human construction.[3]

Constructionism and constructivism are often used interchangeably. It is believed by constructivists that representations of physical and biological reality, including race, sexuality, and gender are socially constructed. Kant, Garns, and Marx were among the first to suggest such an ambitious expansion of the power of ideas to inform the material realities of people's lives.

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