This, naturally enough, includes the activity of making art itself.
As an art, Mr. Newman shows, alchemy was involved in the activity of making things.
And so the stage was set for another career of reconciled contraries: the tactile, smelly, thoroughly physical process of copper-engraving and the more elusive mental activity of making poems.
"Mapping the Studio" is fairly typical of Mr. Nauman's work, insofar as it explores issues relating to the activity of making art and the role of the artist.
In his somewhat esoteric but not entirely obscure view, cinema, the art that is for him both an ethical foundation and a utopian horizon, is devoted to production, the half-industrial, half-artisanal activity of making images.
There was a period in which I considered becoming a filmmaker — I was very tempted, because in some ways movies are my first love — but then I realized that the communal activity of filmmaking was very different from the solitary activity of making a painting".
Database tuning is the activity of making a database application run more quickly.
The activity of making explorative or deliberative plans stands at the crossroads of such tasks, with manifold and intertwined facets that drive agents toward their final targets.
For example, the everyday activity of making a bed includes parts such as "removing the dirty sheets" and "putting on the pillow cases".
