@matthewmackisack
Joined about 5 years agoI’m an historian of art and culture, interested in relationships between modernity, artistic practice and the mind. My research integrates historical methods with the conceptual, critical, and ethnographic. My current focus is on imagining and art-making: how different disciplines have understood the connection, the ideological stakes in the connection, its inflection by neuro-cognitive difference.
@matthewmackisack
Joined about 5 years agoI’m an historian of art and culture, interested in relationships between modernity, artistic practice and the mind. My research integrates historical methods with the conceptual, critical, and ethnographic. My current focus is on imagining and art-making: how different disciplines have understood the connection, the ideological stakes in the connection, its inflection by neuro-cognitive difference.
Hi Nachum Thank you for your message. I'd certainly agree that 'visualisation' and 'knowledge' are separate things: you can have knowledge of how something looks - be able to describe it and recognise it - without being able to visualise it. I like your description of what constitutes your knowledge of an object. But I wouldn't attribute 'not knowing how to draw' to aphantasia - as Glen Keane or indeed the artists in our exhibition demonstrate!
Hi Nachum Thank you for your message. I'd certainly agree that 'visualisation' and 'knowledge' are separate things: you can have knowledge of how something looks - be able to describe it and recognise it - without being able to visualise it. I like your description of what constitutes your knowledge of an object. But I wouldn't attribute 'not knowing how to draw' to aphantasia - as Glen Keane or indeed the artists in our exhibition demonstrate!