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You Can listen on here Science Show - 2 June 2007 - Flacco: the bridge between science and art

Transcript from 12:30 mins Enjoy


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Flacco: With science intruding in every sphere of human endeavour these days, it is no surprise that they are claiming that art can now be explained in neurological terms. Well, are we really expected to discern which neurons were firing as Jack Pollack threw a pot of cadmium red across a strip of 12-ounce cotton duck? Huh! I think not!

Do we really need to know what was on Marcel Duchamp's mind when he was painting Nude Descending a Staircase? And should we care what Pro Hart was thinking when he...when he...well, what was Pro Hart thinking?

I actually think that scientists are jealous of art. For what has science got to offer in return? E=mc2? Ha! My three-year-old could do that. Art speaks for itself, it does not require the opinions of experts. And yet you may have noticed that it is impossible to attend an exhibition these days without being offered an audio tour; a set of headphones featuring the voice of some designated expert explaining each work in tedious detail.

What next? I mean, you wouldn't go to a concert at the Opera House and sit there listening to an audio tour, would you? 'You are now listening to Stockhausen's Etude for Frightened Piano and Loquacious Dwarf in A Minor. Please note the polyphonic axelmelodic semitone which was inspired by a severe attack of tinnitus after the composer heard John Cage's Imaginary Landscapes for Iron Bar and Corrugated Tin. Enjoy.'

No, you don't need this information. I just wish these so-called experts would leave all of us artistes in peace and quiet as we happily view that haunting video instillation of a semi-nude art student reciting Sylvia Plath to her Irish Wolfhound while the animal defecates on a reproduction of Frida Kahlo's Weeping Coconuts. Now, surely this needs no explanation, for the work is obviously a post representational reaction to capitalist objectification, if you'll excuse my explanation.

And anyway, at the end of the day, it must be said that art is in the eye of the beholder. As my father always said, 'That Mona Lisa, she's no oil painting.'

Language is not complete in any speaker, it exists perfectly only within a collectivity.

and this ...
kinda interestin'

Penn & Teller Global warming:
YouTube - Penn And Teller Get Hippies To Sign Water Banning Petition

dihydrogen monoxide

(maybe this should go into the linguistics part of the forum haha)

documentaries, ebooks, audio-books, lectures etc in bittorrent

either make it a seeding website or forward links to P2P links of interest

Perhaps make a 'Are you interested in?' section in the forum ie) add educational/documentary that the majority are interested in

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Cheers

I just read 'silent spring' its scary
i did a wee bit of homework, but still am undecided
i have a couple David Suzuki books to chomp too
i'll have a more thorough read in the forum tommorow day