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Ontology Of Organization As System, Joel Slayton Jan 2000

Ontology Of Organization As System, Joel Slayton

SWITCH

Organization is a naturally occurring phenomenon and is often seen in the field of digital media and data. Self organization is under the control of the data itsel, which leads and directs its own ordering. It evolves as more inputs are placed and ultimately forms networks for it to work within. All data has relations with other information.


Machian Epistemology And Its Part In František Kupka's Painterly Cognition Of Reality, John G. Hatch Jan 2000

Machian Epistemology And Its Part In František Kupka's Painterly Cognition Of Reality, John G. Hatch

Visual Arts Publications

A consensus has emerged amongst art historians that portrays the work the Czech painter, František Kupka (1871-1957), as fluctuating between differing styles and never resolving itself into one straightforward and single-minded direction beyond abstraction. Visually this is true, but for Kupka the visual was secondary in that it plays a subsidiary role to the process involved in the creation of the work itself. A failure to properly understand this process has resulted in an inaccurate reading of Kupka's art, essentially missing the point that his paintings embody in their imagery the cognitive process involved in their creation. Significantly, as I …