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Cognitive Art Manifesto
All artworks that have a physical form, no matter how contemporary, have become objects of nostalgia.
The art of the future will exist only in the mind.
To embrace cognitive art, artists must abandon the physical construction of artworks. A cognitive artist will adhere to the following principles:
1. Produce only the instructions for the forming of art as a cognitive state (the cognitive art object). The instructions should exist only in order to convey the artwork, not to aid its physical realisation.
2. The artist shall not use linguistic or graphic ornamentation. Such ornamentation will lead to the classification of the instructions as an art object.
3. The artist will not allow any artifact arising from the communication of the cognitive object to become valued as an art object. In order to further avoid this, the cognitive artist will recognise the importance of paratextuality in the presentation of their art.
The Cognitive Art Manifesto facilitates the democratisation of both the production and consumption of art: Freeing both artist and audience from the tyranny of the financial system; the virtue signaling of artistic skill; and the industrialisation of art production.
While there may be an atypical response to a work, the cognitive artist recognises that cognition is, by its nature, deeply individual; as such each iteration of the cognitive art work will be a unique experience only made possible by each person’s own psychology.
Stephen Richardson is the
author of the Cognitive Art Manifesto
and can be contacted by emailing frontdesk@cognitivemanifesto.com
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