Material Is the Mother of Innovation

Kuijpers, Maikel H.G.

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“…Art historian Ann-Sophie Lehmann (2016, 14) is an advocate for "material literacy," which she defines as the ability to "express oneself clearly about materials' qualities, histories, and affordances..." Her call is reflected both internally and externally to visual art: archeology for example, which has always been materialcentric, postulates that cultural production and even human cognition are driven by material qualities (Kuijpers 2019). Art historians are similarly observing the ways in which the physical characteristics and cultural perceptions of material influence the artwork (Shannon 2009;Lipinska 2012).…”

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Makers’ voices: four themes for material literacy in contemporary sculpture

Barrett

2020

Journal of Visual Art Practice

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Material has come to be acknowledged as an important source of political and social meaning due to recent philosophical debates concerning "material agency" (Gell 1998;Latour 2005;Coole and Frost 2010;Bennett 2010;Behar 2016). This has clear implications for art: it explores the effects material has on human behaviour and vice versa. In contrast, art criticism commonly positions material as secondary to metaphysical interpretation. Critics such as Krauss (1979) andLippard (1997;Lippard and Chandler 2015) avoid analysing material's multiple sources of information. As a result, we as viewers are ill-equipped to examine the meanings it embodies. This paper presents sculpture as an appropriate framework from which to engage with this problem, as it remains a discipline which creatively explores material in three-dimensional space (Tucker 1981). Four themes have been developed from the analysis of qualitative interviews carried out with eight emerging UK sculptors in order to work towards "material literacy" (Lehmann 2016) in contemporary art practice.

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Makers’ voices: four themes for material literacy in contemporary sculpture

Barrett

2020

Journal of Visual Art Practice

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The origins of money: Calculation of similarity indexes demonstrates the earliest development of commodity money in prehistoric Central Europe

Kuijpers

Popa

2021

PLoS ONE

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The origins of money and the formulation of coherent weight and measurement systems are amongst the most significant prehistoric developments of the human intellect. We present a method for detecting perceptible standardization of weights and apply this to 5028 Early Bronze Age rings, ribs, and axe blades from Central Europe. We calculate the degree of uniformity on the basis of psychophysics, and quantify this using similarity indexes. The analysis shows that 70.3% of all rings could not be perceptibly distinguished from a ring weighing 195.5 grams, indicating their suitability as commodity money. Perceptive weight equivalence is demonstrated between rings, and a selection of ribs and axe blades. Co-occurrence of these objects evidences their interchangeability. We further suggest that producing copies of rings led to recognition of weight similarities and the independent emergence of a system of weighing in Central Europe at the end of the Early Bronze Age.

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Material Is the Mother of Innovation

Cited by 2 publications

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Makers’ voices: four themes for material literacy in contemporary sculpture

Makers’ voices: four themes for material literacy in contemporary sculpture

The origins of money: Calculation of similarity indexes demonstrates the earliest development of commodity money in prehistoric Central Europe

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