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Art and Brain with Kazuo Takiguchi

Authors:
Muneo Kitajima
Makoto Toyota
Jérôme Dinet

Keywords: Traditional arts; Inheritance; CCE; MHP/RT; Meme.

Abstract:
What factors make traditional art what it is? This paper attempts to answer this question through an analysis from the cognitive science perspective. The subject of the study is Japanese traditional crafts. We believe that the process of artwork production is formed as a result of the interaction between the individual behavioral ecology of the artist and the collective behavioral ecology surrounding them, and attempt to analyze it using a functional brain model. This study aims to elu- cidate memes that interface the Perceptual, Cognitive, and Motor (PCM) processes that artists employ while creating artworks with the individual and collective behavioral ecologies that are used in these processes. This study focuses on the artwork production process of Kazuo Takiguchi, a leading Japanese ceramic artist. In elucidating the processes, Model Human Processor with Realtime Constraints (MHP/RT), cognitive architecture that can simulate human behavioral processes by means of PCM processes and Multi-Dimensional Memory Frames (MDMFs) that represent memes, and Cognitive Chrono-Ethnography (CCE), a survey method to understand the characteristics of behaviors expressed on the basis of these processes are employed. The CCE results revealed that the collective behavioral ecology, which contains the individual production experience of each artist folded into the individual behavioral ecology of the artist, and the skill acquisition of the production area formed over a long time, enables the artist to unconsciously imagine and meditate on the production process results, working on the production itself and on the firing and glazing process that bring irreversible changes to the production, to predict with accuracy, and to consciously evaluate the actual results.

Pages: 1 to 10

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2023

Publication date: June 26, 2023

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4197

ISBN: 978-1-68558-046-9

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from June 26, 2023 to June 30, 2023