Keywords

art, medium, consciousness, choice, dreams, Surrealism, Freud, Dada, Dadaism, Dadaist, Existentialism, Taosim, Tao, Feng Shui, philosophy, Cialdini, Osorio, Zittel, Miro, Ali, Mc Gee, Urszula, Blaszak, Fountain, My, Discovering;

Abstract

Human beings encounter cascades of a plethora of experiences, one after another, every single microsecond of our lives. There are many things happening around. The world is full of events and occurrences. As they happen, the mind reacts to every individual input. This is a very exhausting and difficult. Thus, people have developed a process of self-defense against this horrible mishmash of information. Their minds have this amazing capacity of sorting them out and making sense out of them. Humankind's survival depends on that. If one does not sort all this information out, one might not be able to make a simplest decision. As humans process the information, they learn to ignore and forget. They focus on their feelings and emotions. They forget the logic. The oversimplification process begins. Humans create rigid systems of oversimplified formulas. They assign adjectives to things, occurrences, and other people. The number of those adjectives is small. After assigning, those adjectives obscure everything else. A new world is created, stupid, limited, lazy, and in the end making humans very easy to control. What starts as a basic survival process ends up as a tool one can use to destroy the owners of the mind. In the end, the birth of consciousness leads to its death. My work fights this process. It aims to put a person back into that state of shock created by a mishmash of information and thus create the rebirth of consciousness.

Graduation Date

2007

Semester

Spring

Advisor

Hall, Scott

Degree

Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)

College

College of Arts and Humanities

Department

Art

Degree Program

Studio Art and the Computer

Format

application/pdf

Identifier

CFE0001673

URL

http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0001673

Language

English

Release Date

5-21-2007

Length of Campus-only Access

None

Access Status

Masters Thesis (Open Access)

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