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Thought Experiments in Agency

The Artists’ Personal Impacts Survey and Raffle at LMCC Open Studios

Gathering data about artists’ agency and attitudes.

For LMCC’s Open Studios with Process Space artists-in-residence last weekend, I invited artists to take my Artists’ Personal Impacts Survey  and enter a raffle to win one one of ten Irrational Exuberance (Asst. Colors) Mini Flags. You still can take the survey and enter the final raffle drawing to be held in a few weeks!

Thanks to everyone who has taken the survey and visited Open Studios.

artists take the personal impacts survey

Paper cut signage with sample questions and in-progress results.

Q2. Currently, how would you rank how the art market serves the majority of artists? (Responses as of 9/27/2015 4:45pm.)

Q2. Currently, how would you rank how the art market serves the majority of artists? (Responses as of 9/27/2015 4:45pm.)

Q22. In what domain do you experience competence? (Responses as of 9/27/2015 4:45pm.)

Q22. In what domain do you experience competence? (Responses as of 9/27/2015 4:45pm.)

Q33. How much did these experiences of participation, collaboration, generosity, exchange, re-distribution or non-participation increase your personal sense of optimism? (Responses as of 9/27/2015 4:45pm.)

Q33. How much did these experiences of participation, collaboration, generosity, exchange, re-distribution or non-participation increase your personal sense of optimism? (Responses as of 9/27/2015 4:45pm.)

Q39. In the next six months, how likely are you to take steps to create or strengthen an art world you would like to participate in? (Responses as of 9/27/2015 4:45pm.)

Q39. In the next six months, how likely are you to take steps to create or strengthen an art world you would like to participate in? (Responses as of 9/27/2015 4:45pm.)

The first eight of ten prizes were raffled off during Open Studios.

The first eight of ten prizes were raffled off during Open Studios.

Two more flags will be raffled off in the coming weeks! Complete the survey and enter the raffle. (Writer Jessie Chaffee's studio in the background.)

Two more flags will be raffled off in the coming weeks! (Writer Jessie Chaffee’s studio in the background.)

Complete the survey and enter the raffle. There’s still time to win the last two flags!

Learn more about the project.

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Christine Wong Yap is a participant in Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Process Space artist residency program.

The Artists’ Personal Impacts Survey was developed as part of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Process Space artist residency program in 2015.

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Put Pen to Paper

Sketchbook/notebook notes on a book by Csikszentmihalyi & Rochberg

Sketchbook/notebook notes on a book by Csikszentmihalyi & Rochberg

Writing notes longhand helps people better understand and retain information! I’ve been doing this for many years for this reason. It’s slow but efficient, plus (I hope) it minimizes the decline of my handwriting.

“When we write, a unique neural circuit is automatically activated,” said Stanislas Dehaene, a psychologist at the Collège de France in Paris. “There is a core recognition of the gesture in the written word, a sort of recognition by mental simulation in your brain.

“And it seems that this circuit is contributing in unique ways we didn’t realize,” he continued. “Learning is made easier.”

—Maria Konnikova, “What’s Lost as Handwriting Fades,” NY Times, June 2, 2014

 

Typing doesn’t have the same effects, while cursive and printing might have different implications. Artists and performers interested in embodied cognition take note.

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