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The Octopus Meditations the Octopus Meditations Ed Kerns Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania 2018 THE OCTOPUS MEDITATIONS THE OCTOPUS MEDITATIONS ED KERNS Published in conjunction with the exhibition Ed Kerns is an American painter and educator. He studied with Grace Hartigan, the Ed Kerns, The Octopus Meditations highly regarded American Abstract Expressionist. Through his friendship with Hartigan, Brick + Mortar Kerns came to know and work for many artists of the New York School, including Design Studio + Art Gallery Willem de Kooning, James Brooks, Philip Guston, Clyfford Still, and Sam Francis. 1247 Simon Blvd., Suite N101 Easton, Pennsylvania 18042 Kerns’ career in New York had a April 7–May 12, 2018 meteoric trajectory. In 1972, his first exhibition at the Sachs Gallery on 57th Street in Manhattan Biology Department’s Permanent Collection of Paintings garnered high critical praise. by Ed Kerns examining understandings of art, science, The New York Times, The Village and consciousness. Home of the Collection is Voice, Arts Magazine, ArtForum, the Rockwell Integrated Sciences Center at Lafayette College. and Artnews were among the numerous publications to praise his work. Kerns lived and exhibited in Manhattan for 12 years before Front Cover: coming to Lafayette College to x inches7.4 ±0.2 [SYST] or 7.4±0.3 KPC [~~ ± 1 KYL] chair and build the modern era 48 x 30 inches Art Department. In 1987, Kerns was awarded the Eugene and Mildred Clapp Professorship of Art. Artwork copyright © 2018 by Ed Kerns He became the youngest person All works are mixed media on canvas paintings to hold an endowed chair in the College’s history. Essays copyright © 2018 by Daniel Hill, Elaine Reynolds, Taney Rongier Kerns has enjoyed a long association with the New York galleries of A.M. Sachs, Rosa Esman, Florence Lynch, and Howard Scott. His career has spanned a prolific 45 years. Kerns’ work has been shown in over 38 solo exhibitions and 130 group shows in New York, Paris, San Francisco, Washington D.C., Chicago, Denver, Rome, Madrid, Osaka, Munich, and Mexico City. In addition to painting and production of digital art, Kerns routinely collaborates with neuroscientists, biologists, computer scientists, and engineers. He is part of a growing group of artists and academics who embrace the emergent possibilities of consilience Catalogue © 2018 Lafayette College forming a broad partnership to explore the over-arching unity of knowledge. Easton, Pennsylvania, 18042 The visual ideas found in The Octopus Meditations have been developed from All rights reserved. Except for what section 107 of conversations with biologists, neuroscientists, and other artists interested in the the Copyright Act of 1976 permits as “fair use,” compelling revelations made possible by process-driven visual-modeling and direct no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored observation, the root of both art and science. To ask questions about consciousness in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or especially in the context of a magnificent creature with an integrated neural network by any means electronic or mechanical, photocopied, of nine brains places imagination and creativity at the forefront of progress in recorded, or other, without permission of the publishers. The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do scientific and artistic endeavor. not necessarily reflect views of the exhibiting organizations. Photography by Chuck Zovko Wilson and the Ants Changed My Mind 39.75 x 35.75 inches Kinship by Common Descent 40 x 30 inches DISTRIBUTED PERCEPTIONS DANIEL HILL It is apparent in the presence of the world’s famous cave because of our ability to share cognitive tasks in efficient social paintings that as a species we have long found it necessary structures of cooperation. Art can serve as a touchstone for to communicate visually. For millennia, even as the acuity distributing thought and perceptual processes, linking minds of spoken and written lexicon increased, this necessity to through powerful metaphors that transcend the state of object- communicate the ineffable through a visual language has hood into that of being an integrative experience. Consequently, endured. Perhaps this is not surprising as potentially half of all art can be considered a particular quality of experience that neural tissue in the human brain is devoted directly or indirectly conveys tacit knowledge through our collective visual language. to the function of vision. This inherent visual propensity is It also allows for simulations that embrace the totality of reflected in the pivotal role of observation in our quest to human experience and become a sustained mnemonic trigger understand the world around us. Both art and science share for the foundational motivations of all human inquiry: that this common root of careful observation. We have extended of thought, discovery, curiosity, speculation, intuition, and and increased our observational capacity through use of imagination. physical tools such as telescopes and microscopes, as well as cognitive tools such as mathematics and even the system These paintings by Ed Kerns are thus a tool themselves; of inquiry that is science itself. a visual model for a simulated intersubjective reality via metaphor; painting as vectors of inquiry; and a reconnaissance These tools increase our overall capacity to understand and mission for the retrieval of unique data. In this way, his work importantly, to provide unique perspectives. The physical becomes a biomimetic, heuristic system, going forth with capacity of the human brain has not changed in tens of science, and yet where science currently cannot fully venture. thousands of years, but we have learned to employ modes of With someone of Kerns’ ability, it looks effortless; but a most thought capable of revealing slightly more original viewpoints. complex algorithm is playing out in these paintings, one that Einstein famously visualized riding on a beam of light and can only be acquired through many decades of visual and dared change the then widely accepted metaphor of light being intellectual exploration. a wave, to that of light being a particle. This shift of perspective helped us understand light in a new and valuable way. Art In both art and science, the need for speculation and risk taking and science also share this reliance on metaphor as a tool for is essential in moving forward. And yet unbridled speculation understanding and communicating. This metaphoric vision is a waste of time. If art can be used as a tempered system of allows the projection and interaction of the concrete perception and if this subjective realm can be pioneered and and abstract, effectively rendering all of nature a potential communicated, a division once perceived as only black and metaphor of the human mind. white becomes graduated value differences. When the artist has undertaken a disciplined approach of thought, embodied If perspective offers opportunities for knowledge, then a in process, and the attitude of science informing decisions, metaphor imbued with multiple perspectives might be we might begin to accept the notion of artist as data set. This worthy of consideration. Such a symbol exists in the form data can then be processed and give rise to different qualities of the ingenious octopus, which split from our evolutionary and types of knowledge. But the difference between data and tree millions of years ago. The octopus has independently knowledge; knowledge and intelligence; and intelligence and developed a unique form of intelligence and perception wisdom are relevant here, as Kerns’ visual inquiry possesses with a distributed brain allowing each tentacle to function each. Whereas we cannot begin to imagine what it is actually independently. The octopus employs physical tools, has a like to have the subjective experience of an octopus, the very remarkable eye that appears to perceive color in a completely act of trying can help reveal a correspondence between the novel fashion, and has pigment proteins normally found in the patterns that connect patterns. The distributed perceptions eye within its skin, allowing each tentacle to in essence, see. of the octopus echo our own innate tendency to connect our minds and move toward the greater collective goal of Degree of Freedom in a Liquid Field; This distributed system is found in many species such as ants understanding. The nets of perception are cast; modalities as well as humans. Humans have thrived in no small part of inquiry engaged; the processing is now at hand. Not Overwhelmed 40 x 30 inches Why Do You Stay in Prison When the Door Is Wide Open Standing Up, Sitting Down 40 x 30 inches Unknown Parameters of Touch 40 x 30 inches GRAPHS OF OUR EXISTENCE ELAINE R. REYNOLDS Consciousness arises from complex connections or of neurons, rather than a single brain, which receive networks. As you might expect, neuroscientific theories input from a luxurious sensory sheet comprised of consciousness emphasize the brain. Networks are of millions of neurons distributed in the octopus’s formed by neurons (nodes in network speak) and axons body, responding to touch, taste, and perhaps even that connect one neuron to the next (edges), with the visual stimuli. The mini-brains control output locally whole system represented by a graph. Some evidence or coordinately as a network, producing the delicate suggests that networks in the visual half of the cortex movement of limbs and the contortionist antics of the or networks from these areas reaching forward to the octopus body. Octopuses act as individuals, play, and front of the brain hold our conscious perceptions. adapt to new problems and challenges. Their perception Other studies suggest that consciousness is a global of the world, however, is likely to be very different brain phenomenon, where conscious perception changes from ours given the distinctive organization of their the activity and connectivity of the whole network. In nervous system. But the graphs may be the same, the either case, consciousness is generated by functionally underlying complexity of nodes and edges that give rise connected groups of neurons across the brain, linking to conscious behavior.
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