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Tuesday, December 9, 2008
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Andres Serrano (Make up 4)
Andres Serrano (1950 - ) is an American photographer who is most well-known for his photograph "Piss Christ," which depicts a crucifix submerged in urine and blood. Much of his work is controversial due to its incorporation of religious iconography in sordid environments, though Serrano himself does not see his work as sacrilegious. His work has been exhibited worldwide since 1984.
http://www.communityarts.net/readingroom/archivefiles/2002/09/shooting_the_kl.php (Interview)
http://www.corcoran.org/collection/highlights_main_results.asp?ID=80 (Gallery)
http://andresserrano.org/ (Wesbite)
Bible Codes (Make up 3)
Meaningless (or ambiguity of meaning)
"The Torah codes debate forces us to face this issue squarely. There are those who assert that it has been statistically proven that there are codes in the Torah so it can be used as a first step to get some non-religious Jews to start thinking seriously about yiddishkeit. But the virtually unanimous opinion of those professional mathematicians and statisticians who have carefully examined the evidence is that there has been no scientific proof of the codes." - Barry Simon (Professor)
Drosnin, Michael. The Bible Code. New York: Touchstone Publishing, 1998.
The concept of hidden codes in the bible, no matter how much apparent scientific/mathematic research is applied, is ridiculous to me. But the idea of taking a religious text and extracting a new meaning and using it for one's own intentions is something I can completely relate to. Just as I am taking my own experience of the bible and treating it with tinges of irreverence and irony through artistic expression, those who study bible code are taking the religious text and using it to express their own ideas (ideas which they claim surface from pages of the bible). And just as I find it to be an absurd, pointless endeavor, it is most likely that any person working in such a field would find my work absurd and pointless. It is the root of it that I find interesting (the bible as source material) and the bizarre spectrum of expression it has wrought.
"The Torah codes debate forces us to face this issue squarely. There are those who assert that it has been statistically proven that there are codes in the Torah so it can be used as a first step to get some non-religious Jews to start thinking seriously about yiddishkeit. But the virtually unanimous opinion of those professional mathematicians and statisticians who have carefully examined the evidence is that there has been no scientific proof of the codes." - Barry Simon (Professor)
Drosnin, Michael. The Bible Code. New York: Touchstone Publishing, 1998.
The concept of hidden codes in the bible, no matter how much apparent scientific/mathematic research is applied, is ridiculous to me. But the idea of taking a religious text and extracting a new meaning and using it for one's own intentions is something I can completely relate to. Just as I am taking my own experience of the bible and treating it with tinges of irreverence and irony through artistic expression, those who study bible code are taking the religious text and using it to express their own ideas (ideas which they claim surface from pages of the bible). And just as I find it to be an absurd, pointless endeavor, it is most likely that any person working in such a field would find my work absurd and pointless. It is the root of it that I find interesting (the bible as source material) and the bizarre spectrum of expression it has wrought.
Sexual Deviance (Make up 2)
Exploratory
"As we have seen, sexual deviance can be approached in at least four ways:
• It may be ridiculed as a personal quirk (as in the strictly heterosexual Siwan male),
• it may be condemned as a sign of immorality (as in the orgasmic Victorian woman),
• it may be punished as a crime (as in the homosexual Rwala Bedouin),
• it may be treated as a disease or disorder (as in the nonorgasmic modern woman)."
- Erwin J. Haeberle (Sexologist)
"The only unnatural sex is that which you cannot perform." - Alfred Kinsey (Sex Researcher)
Laws, Richard. O'Donohue, William. Sexual Deviance: Theory, Assessment, and Treatment. New York: The Guilford Press, 2008.
My work explores sexual deviancy, mostly in the vein of the inherent guilt of sexual feeling as a Catholic or someone who was raised Catholic. Even if a sex act is considered "normal" by modern standards, it is unavoidably deviant when viewed through a religious lens. Investigating these boundaries has become a fairly regular component in my work.
"As we have seen, sexual deviance can be approached in at least four ways:
• It may be ridiculed as a personal quirk (as in the strictly heterosexual Siwan male),
• it may be condemned as a sign of immorality (as in the orgasmic Victorian woman),
• it may be punished as a crime (as in the homosexual Rwala Bedouin),
• it may be treated as a disease or disorder (as in the nonorgasmic modern woman)."
- Erwin J. Haeberle (Sexologist)
"The only unnatural sex is that which you cannot perform." - Alfred Kinsey (Sex Researcher)
Laws, Richard. O'Donohue, William. Sexual Deviance: Theory, Assessment, and Treatment. New York: The Guilford Press, 2008.
My work explores sexual deviancy, mostly in the vein of the inherent guilt of sexual feeling as a Catholic or someone who was raised Catholic. Even if a sex act is considered "normal" by modern standards, it is unavoidably deviant when viewed through a religious lens. Investigating these boundaries has become a fairly regular component in my work.
White Noise (Make up 1)
White noise is a random signal (or process) with a flat power spectral density. In other words, the signal contains equal power within a fixed bandwidth at any center frequency. White noise draws its name from white light in which the power spectral density of the light is distributed over the visible band in such a way that the eye's three color receptors (cones) are approximately equally stimulated.
Abstract
"On one hand white noise is a very simple process: it is stationary centered Gaussian, and it is independent at different moments of time. The combination of these properties singles it out as a natural object to start from: in a sense, white noise is a "universal" source of randomness, and as such it appears in many fields of applications." - Takeyuki Hida (Mathematician)
Kuo, Hui-Hsiung. White Noise Distribution Theory (Probability and Stochastics Series). CRC Press, 1996.
White noise is essentially the aural equivalent of the layer of visual discord I incorporate in my imagery.
http://whitenoisemp3s.com/free-white-noise
Abstract
"On one hand white noise is a very simple process: it is stationary centered Gaussian, and it is independent at different moments of time. The combination of these properties singles it out as a natural object to start from: in a sense, white noise is a "universal" source of randomness, and as such it appears in many fields of applications." - Takeyuki Hida (Mathematician)
Kuo, Hui-Hsiung. White Noise Distribution Theory (Probability and Stochastics Series). CRC Press, 1996.
White noise is essentially the aural equivalent of the layer of visual discord I incorporate in my imagery.
http://whitenoisemp3s.com/free-white-noise
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