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Sounds Revealing Experiences/Difficulty of Public Speaking/Ease of Dancing

After listening to the “MOOCS” involving Synchronization and Timbre and the Sounds of Athletes, I made multiple connections with the sounds one may hear on an everyday basis. In one of the videos the idea of sounds being musical and the grunts you hear in tennis acting as if it was dialogue made me realize …

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Permanent and Decontextualized Art

In order to Merge Public Art one’s vision must be very vague and be open to a wide variety of possibilities when it comes to creating art. Each of the artists and commissioners I listened to this week whether it was Finkelpearl, the Commissioner of Culture in New York or Ghani a nature photographer both …

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Refusal in Practice/Exclusion(Refusal) of Artists in the Social Structure

This week’s MOOC introduced the idea of social movements and expressions being placed in the same category as an artistic movement. Just as a painting or sculpture requires a planned out idea with detail many of the boycotts and social justice lobbying reforms required preparation. The boycott represented this idea of refusal of a certain …

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