adam daley wilson

spring 2023 current art-related research interests

… I don’t write papers, but if I did, these are probably some of the titles that would describe what I’m thinking about these days — and the potentially universal feelings and emotions that might go with them …

… april 2023 …

• Art and Science … and The Art of Science … and the Science of Art — Interdisciplinary Studies and Research on the Interplay of Visual Arts in Communicating Not Just Scientific Concepts — But Also Scientific Awe And Trust … Instead of Disregard and Distrust … When I think about art like this, I also feel emotions —- and I wonder if they are or could be universal —- primarily, so far, curiosity, inspiration, awe, and maybe also something like a trust-emotion, there must be some non-cognitive connection at an emotional level that is part of trust …

• Why We Balance —- And Should We Balance —- And Does It Matter If We Try to Balance —- Creativity and Protection Now That There Is A Real Artificial Intelligence: A Comparative Analysis of Intellectual Property Rights for Human Artists, Machine Artists, Human Collectors, Corporate Collectors, Corporate Institutions — things in this ‘paper’ include the interplays and impacts on visual and musical and literary and sound artistic expression, going backward and going forward, as to who can have a monopoly over what and when … and speaking of when, when I think about these things, the emotions I think may be universal across cultures and borders include frustration, concern, even fear, but also hope, although even though I sense that, I do not have a good idea why …

… march 2023 …

• Emotions and Economic Decision-Making, Since We Only Pretend It Is Rational Anyway — Investigating the Universal Psychological Underpinnings of Behavioral Economics in Relation To Art Interpretation … this is not about the economic decision-making of buying art, or gallery economics, or anything to do with that side of the art world — this is the interpretation side of the art world — if the prevailing art theory is that the artist puts forth a work, but it takes the viewer to complete it by interpreting it — the Rosalind Krauss model, by way of shorthand — then how is the viewer going about the decision making process of interpretation? Are there universal heuristics? Or is it shaped not just by a given belief system (say, Western), or a person’s given religious belief system (if any) — or by a given decision making process in an economic system (loosely, a market competition interpretation process as opposed to a collective interpretation process)? I don’t know. So that’s why I’m curious. More broadly, can such utilitarian decision-making paradigms influence our potentially universal emotions and feelings about visual art, music, literature, and spoken art? To me, so far, this raises emotions and feelings relating to surprise, interest, self-reflection, and not emotions per se but the universal human cognitive biases …

  … more coming soon …