Today I posted on LinkedIn an image with the text “Ink and acrylic on paper.” Noa Yaari, Ink and Acrylic on Paper. 2020. Mixed media. Toronto. Since then, I’ve been thinking about the connection between the title of the artwork and its technique. In Hebrew, “Adam” means a human being. “Ben” means a son. TheseContinue reading “When the Technique is the Name of the Artwork”
Category Archives: Contemplations
On Campus, We Can All Be Artists
Universities would benefit from allowing their students, faculty, and staff to exhibit their art on campus and from programing and supporting this activity. This would encourage the community to be creative, practice communication, develop confidence, expand its networking, and form collaborations. Furthermore, it would decorate the campus and make it more interesting by displaying personalContinue reading “On Campus, We Can All Be Artists”
A Creative and Effective Grammar
Multiform grammar (MFG) allows who aren’t in regular grammar to their communication ️and ️. It does so since it new paths for , logic, and . I’m analyzing here the phrase “communication ️and ️.” signifies strength, power, capability, competence, endurance, resilience, etc. In this phrase, we interpret it as a noun that the adjective “communication” modifies. But we can also interpret as aContinue reading “A Creative and Effective Grammar”
Using Multiform Grammar in Presentations
How do speakers who use both words and images employ MFG? And how can they do so intentionally and effectively? As you can see in the illustration below, the speaker refers to the image on the screen in three different ways. These are three types of multiform references (MFRs) that integrate words and images intoContinue reading “Using Multiform Grammar in Presentations”
Multiform Grammar and the Working Memory
In 1974, psychologists Alan Baddeley and Graham Hitch offered a model of the working memory, which was revised by Baddeley in 2000. According to the 1974 model, the working memory is a system that enables temporary storage and manipulation of information for complex tasks. These could include language acquisition, reading, learning, reasoning, and comprehension (BaddeleyContinue reading “Multiform Grammar and the Working Memory”
Pulling and Pushing Forces in Multiform References
Explicit, implicit and indeterminate multiform references (MFRs) maintain pulling and pushing forces between their verbal and visual poles. These forces are the mechanisms that potentially move readers to shift their attention between words and images across a multiform argument (MFA) or message. They are the invisible elements that make MFAs cohesive and coherent; the coreContinue reading “Pulling and Pushing Forces in Multiform References”
Implicit Multiform References
Implicit multiform references (MFRs) generate shifts of attention through semantic relatedness between the MFA’s verbal and visual components and their visual features without announcing their operation. For example, the presence of both the word “cat” and an image of a “cat” on the same page establishes a point or moment within the consumption of theContinue reading “Implicit Multiform References”
What Makes Visual Evidence “Evidence”?
Alfa Romeo 4C Spider In April’s post, I asked if – within the industry of creating and communicating historical knowledge – there is any epistemological significance to visual evidence that was photographed by the historian who writes about it. I claimed that participating in the production of the visual evidence is an “opportunity to compareContinue reading “What Makes Visual Evidence “Evidence”?”
Historians Photograph their Visual Evidence
The visual material in illustrated historiography usually results from a chain of practices, most noticeable are the artistic creation, the photographing of the artwork, and the printing of that photograph in the book. This chain of practices is the industry of creating and communicating historical knowledge. Within that industry, is there any epistemological significance toContinue reading “Historians Photograph their Visual Evidence”
Renaissance Society of America – New Orleans, March 22-24, 2018
At the RSA 2018, I commented on three papers that art historians Dr. Jorge Sebastián Lozano, Dr. Víctor Mínguez Cornelles and Dr. Inmaculada Rodríguez Moya presented in the session: “Between Word and Image: Verbal-Visual Representations of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Royal Women,” which I organized, and Dr. Julie Campbell chaired. This is what I said: Over the last few weeks,Continue reading “Renaissance Society of America – New Orleans, March 22-24, 2018”
Noa Yaari 