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6 October 2004. Last night I wrote out the following notes for my Miami Art Museum presentation:
The notes were based on thoughts I'd had for several days about the evolution of illumagery during the past century. A main point of my talk will be that it has, among other things, slowly worked its way toward pluraesthetic art, or art making significant use of more than one expressive modality, such as opera (music and literature) and ballet (kinesthetic art and music--and, perhaps, drama). It has done this by proceeding into abstraction in general, then more specifically into the abstraction of words and geometry. At the same time, poetry has become gradually less purely textual by combining with the visual in concrete poetry, then more largely, in visual poetry while mathematics has been much more obscurely retooled as a form of both illumagery and poetry. The final result? Why, my mathemaku, obviously.
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