viernes, septiembre 03, 2004
I define perception
If expanded cinema has had anything to say, the message has been the medium.
Herbert Read: "Art never has been an attempt to grasp reality as a whole—that is beyond our human capacity; it was never even an attempt to represent the totality of appearances; but rather it has been the piecemeal recognition and patient fixation of what is sig-nificant in human experience." We're beginning to understand that "what is significant in human experience” for contemporary man is the awareness of consciousness, the recognition of the process of perception. (I define perception both as "sensation" and "concep-tualization," the process of forming concepts, usually classified as "cognition." Because we're enculturated, to perceive is to interpret.) Through synaesthetic cinema man attempts to express a total phe-nomenon—his own consciousness.
Herbert Read: "Art never has been an attempt to grasp reality as a whole—that is beyond our human capacity; it was never even an attempt to represent the totality of appearances; but rather it has been the piecemeal recognition and patient fixation of what is sig-nificant in human experience." We're beginning to understand that "what is significant in human experience” for contemporary man is the awareness of consciousness, the recognition of the process of perception. (I define perception both as "sensation" and "concep-tualization," the process of forming concepts, usually classified as "cognition." Because we're enculturated, to perceive is to interpret.) Through synaesthetic cinema man attempts to express a total phe-nomenon—his own consciousness.
