Seminar Series: Ejay Weiss, "Viewing the Local/Global: An Artist's Perspective"

Begins
 2 Apr 2008 - 6:00pm
Ends
 2 Apr 2008 - 6:00pm
Location
66 West 12th St., Room 619

GPIA Seminar Series presents

Ejay Weiss

Viewing the Local/Global: An Artist's Perspective

 


Wednesday, April 2nd
6 - 8 p.m.
66 W 12th St., Room 619

We live in a bounded yet infinite world full of parameters that constantly shift our perceptions into realms of increasing uncertainty and complexity. Is there a way to construct a visual paradigm that captures these shifts in global perspectives and includes what we see at street level? Some 35,000 years ago Pleistocene cave painters expressed their awe and understanding of the panoply of life by surrounding themselves in images that we still recognize today, despite that most of the animals they depicted, such as the woollly mammoth, became extinct before civilization began. Today we can still see human and natural history converge through art, and entropy, the relationship between order and chaos, becomes a means to approach the challenge of adapting a global vision to the paradox of a simultaneously shrinking and expanding local & global environment. When the world is viewed through the rotational lens of visual metaphysics, even our post-Einsteinian concepts of time and space may shift within a multi-dimensional fluid framework. This seminar also introduces a geoscopic perspective, which affords an out-of-the box view of a micro-macro paradigm of the world, and is structured in fundamentally simple and graphic terms— which are made easy to digest for any consumer of ideas.

Part of the Seminar Series.

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