TOK Presentation

RLS: Miami Connection

What I wondered

• How come this movie was bashed when it came out?
• Why do I like it so much?

KQ: How do we justify our appreciation of art ?

What do we mean by art?

• the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power.

Knowledge Framework

• established likes/dislikes applicable to how we use our WOKs.
• utilizes shared and personal knowledge

Which WOKS?

• sense perception
• memory
• emotion

sense perception

• we use sense perception to create a basic understanding of the experience for understanding of context

Claim

• I know I use sense perception to establish meaning in art, mainly through hearing and seeing.

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SP Reliable?

• The five senses can be deceptive and deceived, depending upon how the new information fits into the knowledge framework.
• Ought we consider physical limitations such as blindness or deafness affecting appreciation?
• color blindness/deaf
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memory

what is memory?

• ability to recall previous experiences in order to make sense of knowledge
• knowledge from the past connecting shared knowledge to personal knowledge

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• I know I appreciate art because of memories of my childhood.
• Nostalgia, or a longing for the past, means a lot to me.

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• How can nostalgia affect the appreciation of the arts?
• remember the highs not lows selective memory/rosey retrospection/
• searching for hindsight bias

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reliability of memory?

• memory is reconstructed and easily swayed
• I remember what I want to and build connections based off what I want to
• my appreciation for art is based off of knowledge that I relate to the knowledge framework I have constructed as it adheres to shared knowledge

So is it all emotion?

• I know that the emotional ties I have create an appreciation of art.

define emotion

• instinctive internal or social reactions involving feelings

emotion

What do you see?

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why don't we use reason?

• in subjective nature of art, reason can be wrong
• art does not have to be reasonable

other factors

• adhering to authority
• adhere to ethics

How do we justify?

• appreciation of the arts is unique to the individual based on WOKs to create context.
• must adhere to ethical code?
• reliant on emotion as the main WOK, but utilizes a network for understanding
• must adhere to general knowledge framework
• may succumb to a paradigm shift depending upon....
• final judgment is subjected to shared knowledge, but personal knowledge? or subject to personal knowledge, but shared knowledge must be acknowledged?