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Authors:

 Bonshek, Anna; Fergusson, Lee. PAPER

Title:

 Space, Time, and Bodies: Inscriptions of the Uncreated Commentary of Consciousness

Keywords:

 Intelligence, cognition, perception, architecture, cosmology.

Abstract:

 As attention collapses from an infinite set of possibilities, through the mind and senses, to a particular intention, related to the object of the mind-a thought or perception, a sequence of steps takes place which structure thought and by implication speech and action. The same process and sequence of steps underlies the structuring dynamics of intelligence apparently emerging at each moment into precipitated form perceived as matter and our material universe. Ultimately, each observer observes his or her own universe and the dynamics of this process are the same for each observer. In knowing the mechanics of this process all processes are known. Dealing with this mathematical, sequential description of the dynamic flow of a field of consciousness (which is subjective in nature) and its expression as material form, a computer-generated animation, which utilizes algorithms in the creation of visual cues, will address the principle of the uncreated commentary of the structure of knowledge within an unbounded field of consciousness. The sounds and gaps of language will be considered in a presentation and a screening of work which deals with the mechanics of cognition.
Bonshek, Anna. ABonshek@mum.edu Independent Anna Bonshek has exhibited work in England, Australia, Hong Kong and America, published articles in Artlink, New Art Examiner, College Student Journal, AN, Tractor, chapters in Visibly Female, Feminist Action I, exhibition catalogues on Maria Chevska and Michael Kane Taylor and curated exhibitions at the Des Moines Art Center, the University of Northern Iowa, and the Institute for the Creative Arts, Iowa. Awards received by the artist include curatorial grants, research and exhibition bursaries from ISEA'98, the Iowa Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Royal Society of Arts, London. Her forthcoming book Art: A Mirror of Consciousness, deals with consciousness, art and theory from the perspective of Vedic Science. Bonshek has taught in England, America and Australia, and was the founding Co-Rector of a new university in Cambodia; she is currently collaborating with Lee Fergusson on digitally manipulated series of images called Cultural Vectors based on research in Cambodia and with both Fergusson and Ralph Bunker on computer-generated work on the mathematics of consciousness language and cognition. Multiple Infinities, a computer animation work on which she collaborated, was presented at ISEA's Terror'98 and CAiiA-STAR's Consciousness Reframed II; her article Creating a Revolutionary Digital Summer in Artlink reviews the Australian contingent at these conferences. She has a B.A. in Fine Art from The Polytechnic Wolverhampton, a Higher Diploma in Painting from the Slade School of Fine Art, London, and a Ph.D. in the Science of Creative Intelligence from Maharishi University of Management.

Fergusson, Lee. LFergusson@usagl.com Lee Fergusson has undergraduate and graduate degrees in visual art, art education and the Science of Creative Intelligence, specializing in art education. His dissertation researched explored the impact of a Vedic Science based postsecondary art curriculum on contemporary art theory and practice; noted art educator and psychologist Professor Rudolf Arnheim was a member of his dissertation committee. Fergusson has held ten solo exhibitions in Australia and the U.S. since 1975, and has participated in more than 150 group exhibitions in Australia, Japan, Germany, France, UK, Canada and the U.S. He has written criticism for New Art Examiner and Artlink, and has published research in journals such as Perceptual and Motor Skills, College Student Journal, Education and Research Perspectives, History of Education, Educational Research and Development, and Journal of Instructional Psychology. Fergusson has been a professor of visual art and art history and head of printmaking and drawing at a variety of institutions worldwide, including Bendigo College of Advanced Education (Australia), Queensland College of Art (Australia), Maharishi International University (USA), and was founding rector of Maharishi Vedic University Cambodia and Maharishi Vedic College (Australia).