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I attended the artist talk by Jim Condron on his exhibition "Picking up the Pieces". For some reason, I expected the artist talk to be super formal and structured. This was not what occurred over the 75 minutes in which Jim Condron invited us into his private life as much as he could. Not only did his pieces expose some of his internal emotions, but his conversation with art critic, Ann Landi, and the gallery director was intimate and told of the experiences that led up to his creation of this series. It was especially interesting how Condron did not really want to talk it seemed. He described all the defeat that he went through in his early career and what brought him to this point, almost as though he felt that he was still not worthy of having a crowd gather to hear what he thought and felt. I was moved by his admiration for his mentor, who it turns out, was sitting right in front of me. From the questions that were asked, it seems as though the majority of the audience

This video immediately reminded me of conversations I had had with a friend of mine. He was explaining his field of study in college. First off, he begins by saying that he is a cartographer. I.e., he studies and draws maps. This conversation occurred within a group of peers. One friend made the comment, "Well, isn't everything already mapped out?", another chimed in, "Yeah, so what would you really do in the workplace?". He laughed and explained that he got this reaction frequently. And that no, it's not really as simple as it seems and it's not an individual, isolated profession. He told of us an internship he had working for the city of Baltimore. His position included mapping out neighborhoods including concentrations of crime areas, vacant housing, and schools. This allowed the city office to identify where community centers were needed to hopefully decrease the rate of children and adolescents entering into crime. This is a primary example of data

"The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence." In keeping with the postmodern tradition, my project takes the emotion of the statement and transforms it into a visual display. The composition of the work is most close to a rule of thirds. There are varying different lines separating the piece into different sections, segregating some themes while creating a setting of congruence for others. The focal point of the piece is the white robot playing the violin. Though this figure is set back behind two barriers, it is the brightest color of the image thus the eyes are drawn there. One then follows the orange line to right noticing the contrast of the black and white figure on a colorful background with a warm explosion. Returning to the thick vertical line, one's eye path moves up toward the largest piece of the composition. Using Magritte's Midnight Marriage (1926) while adding a Black Right's movement individual

I found both of these articles extremely interested. Not only did they excite me for our next assignments in postmodernism, they brought up numerous questions regarding the movement. From the first article detailing an introduction to postmodernism, I was reminded of an excerpt I read this past spring prior to traveling to Rome. This introduction to postmodernism revealed to me that individuals across all areas of intellect can be considered postmodernists. The article that I read prior was written about Sigmund Freud on the history of Rome. I'm not sure exactly, but I believe this article written by Freud predated the postmodern yet illustrated similar views. I've linked this article to the views of the postmodern movement because Freud discusses Rome's history as a mental entity. It is characteristic of postmodernism to use hyperbolic metaphors to describe phenomena. The way that the Introduction to postmodernism text described an arts brochure for a major university an

I found this podcast to be the most entertaining and interesting of all the readings/videos assigned thus far. I enjoyed the narrators and how their personalities were illustrated through their discussion of colors. Additionally, I listened to it while driving back to Baltimore from Massachusetts. Not only was I able to put their words into context of the colors of the changing leaves on the trees tunneled in the highway but also the day fading into night as the world around glowed then darkened. I think what struck me about this podcast is how much the narrators describe color as being an individual process. What I understand through their discussion was that color depends on us. Is color a social construct? Though color may be an individual process, we all have shared notions of what we perceive to be red, green, purple, etc. Does this mean that color exists because we communicate about it? This phenomena reminds me of the tree falling in the forrest. The tree does still fall even