Check out the Intentist interview with Professor Colin Lyas of Lancaster University ‘Art and Intentionality’ @ www.intentism.com
Professor Colin Lyas discusses the role of authorship and intention in the arts. Lyas is the author of 'Aesthetics.' The interview can also be seen on YouTube.
If authorship is irrelevant, does it matter that Heidegger and Paul de Man penned anti-Semitic works?
If you remove an author from his or her work, does that also remove accountability? Should writers like Heidegger and Paul de Man be able to write sexist, racist or…
Does an art work mean whatever viewers think? What if viewer’s have incompatible interpretations?
Roland Barthes wrote of the Birth of the Viewer. Modern theorists and critics speak of the Creative Eye. If meaning is in the eye of the beholder - hermeneutical pluralism,…
If authorship doesn’t matter, isn’t the public interest in the designer of a celebrity’s clothes interesting?
The recent Golden Globes was a case in point. During the red carpet interviews, the interviewer always asked the inevitable "who are you wearing?" question. Therefore it seems that it…
If an artworks authorship is irrelevant, what is a forgery ?
Roland Barthes' seminal essay The Death of an Author and Foucault's What is an author discussed the role of the author in literary texts. However, much of this theory has…
Do the intentions of an artist have an influence over the work’s meaning, or does the work gave a life outside the artist?
Is the meaning of a work the outworking of artistic intent, or does the work have a presence beyond the artist whereby its meaning can change from culture to culture…
Intentist film to be screened during film festival at Genesis cinema, Stepney
Film of latest Intentist exhibition is to be screened at a student film festival at the Genesis cinema, Stepney for Central Saint Martin students amongst others.
Intentist film screening
The recent short film of the Intentism exhibition will be screened at a film festival in Stepney. More details to follow...
Intentist short film
Various Intentists are beginning work on a short film that visually demonstrates the creative Trail
Short film of Intentism exhibition 2011
The short film documenting the recent Intentist exhibition off Brick Lane, London has now been uploaded on Youtube. The film includes interviews with all but one of the artists.