To continue on the them of "Information Technology" and it's primary theorist Claude Shannon, I'd like to extoll the praises of uncertainty in life. While the Second Law of Thermodynamics tells us that matter tends toward decay and chaos - the theory of entropy - we as humans do all tat we can to minimize uncertainty in life. The child who is secure and sure of their environment feels comfortable enough to learn and explore, while the child who is uncertain is not secure and needs to spend all of their energy and intelligence guarding against danger and uncontrolled environment. We like security and certainty. Feeling certain helps our hearts and lungs beat and breath at an even steady rate and allows us to rest and recharge our bodies.
However without some uncertainty and unknown we are not lead to explore, discover, change and grow. Shannon who coined the term "byte" as a unit of measure for information saw all messages as essentially the same if you did not consider the content. He considered information and its delivery as measurable. I wonder if there are studies that have measured the level of risk-taking behavior (which could involve high levels of uncertainty) in relation to feelings of growth and emotional gain.
Tonight I attended a free workshop at Materials for the Arts in Long Island City, Queens. This city agency collects seconds and cast off material form many industries from textiles to woodwork.
Dianne Smith is the current "Artist in Residence with her show: Twisted Woven Tyed."
We toured her exhibit before being let loose to make something of our own out of the many materials. Dianne was a painter who came to the work of fiber arts intuitively. She subsequently learned she is form a long line of basket weavers. Dianne encouraged us to just knot the various strings, ropes and yarns we found on the tables and to "Not" worry about the "knots" and where they took us. We had to give into a fair amount of uncertainty in this act. To create a piece of art is to enter the realm of mystery and uncertainty where intuition rules. Dianne speaks of the "familiarity of the unfamiliar" and describes the process of feeling an affinity for knot making before discovering a family legacy of basket making.
She felt a physical reaction to knot making and knitting which helped her to create a body of work which celebrates the organic flow of unknown and organic object.
However without some uncertainty and unknown we are not lead to explore, discover, change and grow. Shannon who coined the term "byte" as a unit of measure for information saw all messages as essentially the same if you did not consider the content. He considered information and its delivery as measurable. I wonder if there are studies that have measured the level of risk-taking behavior (which could involve high levels of uncertainty) in relation to feelings of growth and emotional gain.
Tonight I attended a free workshop at Materials for the Arts in Long Island City, Queens. This city agency collects seconds and cast off material form many industries from textiles to woodwork.
Dianne Smith is the current "Artist in Residence with her show: Twisted Woven Tyed."
We toured her exhibit before being let loose to make something of our own out of the many materials. Dianne was a painter who came to the work of fiber arts intuitively. She subsequently learned she is form a long line of basket weavers. Dianne encouraged us to just knot the various strings, ropes and yarns we found on the tables and to "Not" worry about the "knots" and where they took us. We had to give into a fair amount of uncertainty in this act. To create a piece of art is to enter the realm of mystery and uncertainty where intuition rules. Dianne speaks of the "familiarity of the unfamiliar" and describes the process of feeling an affinity for knot making before discovering a family legacy of basket making.
She felt a physical reaction to knot making and knitting which helped her to create a body of work which celebrates the organic flow of unknown and organic object.
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