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Get your brains together
What would it be like to look into the brain of a book club?
Or a sociology class? Or a creative agency? Can shared sandboxes for ideas help us build knowledge in ways that online documents and chat rooms still can’t?
This is Are.na’s central promise, and we hope the new groups make it much easier for you to think together on the platform in many different contexts. We hope they offer you another tool for creating your own mindful social spaces online. Most of all, we hope they helps you learn from other people and expand the boundaries of your curiosity.
Start thinking together.
GHOSTKUBE: A Series of Interlocking and Buildable Block Transformations by Erik Åberg
IBM and Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology is the area of science and innovation concerned with material of less than 100 nanometers. Specifically, it involves the control and manipulation of individual atoms and molecules. On this day in 1979, IBM created the smallest electronic circuit elements ever reported. The nano devices had a thickness of only 100 by 200 atomic diameters – that’s smaller than the fibers of a human nerve. This breakthrough was one of the first steps in the still-ongoing development of nanotechnology. Today, IBM scientists continue to explore and improve the design of semiconductors and computer chips, making them smaller, smarter and more energy efficient. It’s another way IBM is investing in practical technology development for the future.
Learn more about nanotechnology ->
A Powerful Netflix Film About Stanislaw Szukalski, A Brilliant But Obscure Sculptor & Self-Proclaimed Genius
Our Brodsky Curator of Photographs, Peter Barberie, compares the world of boxing to a great novel. Meet some of the characters and experience the drama of the ring in “Larry Fink: The Boxing Photographs.”
“Blue Horizon, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 1991,” 1991, by Larry Fink © Larry Fink
We’ve had a lot of new people join Are.na this week after the conversations about Tumblr.
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The TL;DR: Are.na is an ad-free space for building ideas together by linking collections of content. Here’s an overview of what makes us unique and why you might want to join: http://bit.ly/2QgHOVR
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Grad Cafe posting of funded MFA programs
Funded MFA programs
Source: grad cafe website: https://forum.thegradcafe.com/topic/70211-mfa-programs-with-fullpartial-funding/
Some one posted this information from a 2012 posting and I thought it was too important to have buried. I have made changes reflecting my own understanding but it would be to crowdsourcing an update this.
West
- UCSD (full ride + teaching stipend)
- UC Irvine (I believe there is good funding here, but unsure of details)
- UCLA (both DMA and the regular arts program give up to 100+% funding with teaching)
- USC (many admits get full tuition funding)
- UCSB (full finding + excellent stipend and teaching)
- Stanford (full ride + excellent stipend and teaching)
- UC Berkeley (full ride tuition for instate peeps, out of staters pay difference)
- Mills (not always, but I have heard of 50+% funding here)
- UC Davis (50-70% funding)
- UOregon (full ride + teaching stipend)
- UW (full ride)
- ASU (Arizona State) (full ride) + (50% tuition + Merit Scholarsihps: for International Students)
Midwest
- UIowa (I believe there is full funding avail here)
- Indiana (full ride, I believe)
- UChicago (75% tuition funding + teaching stipend) - KEEP an eye on this program. They are dumping a TON of money into the arts here (esp. with their fabulous Logan Arts Center. A “hidden gem” of a program)
- UI-C (I have heard of good funding here)
- Northwestern (full ride + excellent stipend and teaching)
- SAIC (I hear of one full ride and one half ride per department)
- SIUC (Southern Illinois) (full ride + stipend)
- UMichigan (full ride, first year travel funding, free computer, + stipend)
- Ohio (both state and university) (full rides + stipend to both universities)
(I’m sure there are others in the M-W…)
South
- UGA (Georgia) (excellent funding)
- LSU (Louisiana) (excellent funding)
- UF (Florida) (full funding)
-University of North Carolina at Greensboro is a fantastic program with amazing funding!! Small, interdisciplinary, with extraordinary faculty.Summer trip abroad to Venice, Berlin, or Mexico City fully funded in-between the two years…with Graduate Teaching Assistantships (first year) and teaching opportunities (second year).I was hunting on this forum two years ago to find the right MFA program and I am so thrilled that I decided to attend UNCG. So if you are still researching options, go check out their instagram @uncgmfa
- UTex-Austin (50% or more funding, I have heard of)
- Georgia Tech (MS in Digital Media is a full ride)
- Georgia State Welch School of Art MFA -http://artdesign.gsu.edu/graduate/admissions/masters-of-fine-arts-in-studio/
East
- Alfred (full ride + stipend)
- University of Delaware offers full tuition for both years, $18,000 stipend for 2nd years in good standing and most first years get a half stipend…there are also extra fellowships available and for the next few years donors have committed to funding the 2nd years having an exhibition and traveling in Berlin, Germany. Deadline is February 15th.
- RPI / iEAR (half the admits get full finding)
- Carnegie-Mellon (70+% funding)
- RISD (Pres. Scholarships range 40K, 20K and 10K, but most pay)
- Rutgers ( full funding)
- SUNY Buffalo (heard of good-to-full funding here)
- Tyler/Temple (sometimes they do offer full funding + stipend to some first year MFAs, but 2nd yr seems to get best funding)
- SFMA (has been known to dish out some decent money, but not all the time)
- Yale (if you are low income, along with your parents (regardless of your age, they ask for your parent’s financials), you can qualify for excellent funding. If not, you will pay)
- MIT / ACT (I have heard of around 50% funding)
- Univ of Maryland (full ride + teaching stipend)
- VCU (70+% funding)
- Cornell (full ride + teaching stipend)
- MICA (25-50% tuition for some)
- Bard (heard of there being up to 50% funding)
- Montclair State (heard of excellent funding here)
-SUNY Purchase (everyone gets some funding, a few get nearly complete funding)
Also from Grad Cafe:
Some international information:
All German MFA equivalent programs are tuition free and students can apply for government sponsored DAAD studentships that cover cost of living (something like 750 euro per month) regardless of wether the student is foreign or local. Quite a few German schools have excellent reputations.
RMIT (Melbourne) offers stipend and tuition to Australasian MFA students, and have a number of studentships for internationals.
TNUA (Taipei) has a joint studentship program with the government for international students which covers fees and stipend. Last I heard they were also running a joint program with Aalto (Helsinki), though not sure if the studentship would cover the exchange semesters in Finland.
CAFA (Beijing) I believe has a similar govt. scholarship arrangement.
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McMansion Hell Does Architectural Theory (Part 4): Empiricism & the Picturesque (Part 1)
Hello Friends! Today we continue our very fun foray into the 18th Century with some dudes who were like what if, like, we don’t have any innate ideas at birth? Dude, what if – hear me out – our ideas are but a product of our sensations and our later reflections on said sensations?
(I promise there won’t be anymore gifs in this article)
These ideas about the philosophy of our minds are the core basis for what was known as empiricism, a philosophy originating with everybody’s favorite life liberty and property (honestly, mostly property) dudebro from Civics class, John Locke.
My mother must be so proud of me for making this.
Locke’s 1700 essay An Essay Concerning Human Understanding laid out the foundations of his philosophy and set the context for which beauty is understood within said philosophy.
Locke’s Empiricism
Locke’s ideas were founded on the concept that humans are not born with innate thoughts - that they were in fact a “blank slate” (tabula rasa) at birth, upon which thoughts become inscribed via a process of sensation: the external information which we receive from our senses - hearing, sight, taste, etc. These sensations are followed by the operations of our minds in reaction to external stimuli including such acts as: “perception, thinking, doubting, believing, reasoning, knowing, willing…”
Of course we don’t go through the world blinded by our senses. Locke finishes his idea with the concept of Reflection, which is exactly what it sounds like - the mind’s reflecting on its own thoughts and experiences.
Another core idea of Locke’s was the idea of associationism - an observation that thoughts that are not alike at all somehow become inextricably linked in the minds of human beings. When linked, Locke argues, these ideas can seem impossible to separate.
We’ve all surely experienced such a thing. For example, some of us can’t listen to My Bloody Valentine ever again without thinking about a bad relationship, or eat Papa Johns pizza without thinking about that weird guy in college who framed a picture of Papa John (carved from an old pizza box) in a fit of boozy glee.
Of course this philosophy has huge implications for aesthetics.
The Picturesque
Until this time, aesthetics (and by corollary architectural theory) was pretty much entirely based on the Platonic idea of innate absolute beauty based on mathematical proportions, with a few notable exceptions (e.g. our friend, Perrault)
However, Locke’s ideas presented a problem to this idea: how can there be an absolute beauty innately known to all if we are born a blank slate without innate thoughts?
Importantly, Locke’s ideas of sensation and reflection offered an explanation for a phenomenon Platonic aesthetics could not or did not explain satisfactorily: why human beings find untamed nature, which certainly does not follow a rigid proportional framework, so breathtaking and inspiring.
This idea was first formally explored through the field of landscape architecture, which, even before Locke’s writings, was expressing exasperation with the Platonically inspired, highly manicured gardening style the British had adopted from the French tradition.
The whole purpose and ideology of these French gardens was to make order out of nature, to tame it and subject it to a mathematical, proportional scrutiny.
Orangerie at the Palace of Versailles Photo by Urban (CC-BY-SA 3.0)
At the end of the 17th century, several British diplomats and writers visited China, several of whom wrote in depth about the gardening style found there and how shockingly different it was from the traditions back home.
The most notable of these gardening diaries was “Upon the Gardens of Epicurus; or, of Gardening in the Year 1685″ by William Temple, a diplomat to Charles I and an amateur gardener. In his essay, Temple marveled at Chinese gardens and their use of “contriving figures, where the beauty shall be great, and strike the eye, but without any order or disposition of parts that shall be commonly or easily observed…”
It was upon these ideas of beauty being “great and strike the eye…without any order” that the English Landscape Garden was born, and through it, gardening became divorced from the rigorous proportional rules of architecture, and could exist instead as an idealized portrait of nature.
Garden at Rousham House (1737) by the great English landscape designer, William Kent. Photo by Grahamec (CC-BY-SA 3.0)
This idealized view, later rooted in the ideas of Locke’s ideas of sensation, was called the picturesque - wherein beauty (at least in nature) is judged by “the picture one sees” and the mental/emotional reaction to it.
Even our staunchly Palladio-obsessed friend, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury, pounced on this ideology. In his famous 1709 dialog “The Moralists”, Shaftesbury waxes poetic about how much better nature is than any dumb ugly people garden:
“I shall no longer resist the passion growing in me for things of a natural kind, where neither art nor the conceit or caprice of man has spoiled their genuine order by breaking in upon that primitive state. Even the rude rocks, the mossy caverns, the irregular unwrought grottos and broken falls of waters, with all the horrid graces of the wilderness itself, as representing Nature more, will be the more engaging, and appear with a magnificence beyond the formal mockery of princely gardens.”
Shaftesbury, being a notorious tastemaker, set the stage for a discussion amongst writers and artists that would span most of the 18th century.
Philosophical Debates
While the ideas of sensation and reflection were easy to grasp within a landscape design framework, they proved to be much more slippery from an aesthetic theory standpoint.
It was the writer (and close acquaintance of Shaftesbury) Joseph Addison who, in a series of essays from a short-lived journal called The Spectator, would link Lockean empiricism to aesthetics. Addison would also go on to write a play, (Cato, a Tragedy) that would p much end up being the literary inspiration for the American Revolution.
Back to his 1712 essays on art, Addison describes beauty as a sensation: “The very first Discovery of [beauty] strikes the Mind with an inward Joy, and spreads a Chearfulness and Delight through all its Faculties.”
Addison drifts into uncharted territory when he proposes that “There is not perhaps any real Beauty or Deformity more in one Piece of Matter than another”, citing the common phenomenon of hating something and then coming to like it as time goes on. However Addison cannot deny that there are some things “which the Mind, without any previous Consideration, pronounces at first sight Beautiful or Deformed.”
This is the heart of the philosophical debate behind empiricist aesthetics: if we are not born with innate thoughts, why, then, do so many human beings find beauty in the same things, especially when experiencing these things for the first time?
It is the answers to this question that we will explore in next Monday’s installment: Empiricism & The Picturesque Part 2. If you like Burke, Hume, and some really dank fights about how our brains work, you’re def in for a treat.
To keep you occupied until then, be sure to be on the lookout for Thursday’s Maryland McMansion, which is guaranteed to be devastatingly dank.
Have a great Memorial Day!
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