Despite our best efforts, they switch places in our conceptual maps, blur, and merge into one another.
The resulting videos, in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, might seem at first like conceptual exercises or blurred Gerhard Richter paintings set in motion, but they come to convey the almost palpable feeling of a city that has achieved self-consciousness.
JR's preoccupations reflect a deeper set of contemporary artistic concerns: how to produce work out of human relationships, or "relational art," as the critic Nicolas Bourriaud put it — conceptual pieces that blur the distinction between artist, subject, and spectator into a social puzzle.
Furthermore, production of semantic errors in naming (the one task studied by Schwartz and colleagues, 2009) does not necessarily imply an underlying semantic deficit; in fact, Schwartz et al. (2009) argue against the possibility that the semantic errors produced by the patients they studied were caused by a conceptual deficit or blurred semantic distinctions between concepts themselves.
Like that other revered conceptual artist Hans Haake, Macuga blurs the boundaries between artist, curator and collector by taking other artists' works and displaying them alongside objects she's found.
In his argumentation from the point of view of philosophy of science, Strunz (2012) concludes that pragmatic and creative problem-solving may benefit from conceptual vagueness, which allows blurred conceptual boundaries as well as the use of metaphors.
In contrast, several authors argue that even when taking place under immediate threats to security, mobility involves both choices and constraints, which blurs the conceptual boundaries between voluntary and involuntary mobility (Bakewell, 2008; Hyndman, 2012; King, 2012; Lubkemann, 2008; Monsutti, 2008; Stein & Cuny, 1994).
If the main causal direction from general health perceptions towards overall QoL were dominant, blurring of the conceptual distinction between health status or HQoL and overall QoL would be less consequential, although possibly not desirable [ 3].
The need to consider multiple values has contributed to a blur in the conceptual landscape.
This diagnosis raises the question as to whether there are conceptual issues at stake that blur problems.
Tobias Wong, a designer whose outrageous sendups of luxury goods and witty expropriation of work by other designers blurred the line between conceptual art and design, died on Sunday at his home in Manhattan.
