Juried Art Shows

Tuesday night there is a juried art show at the NWC gallery with pieces from here and Dordt. A faculty member from Dordt will be the judge for the show. They are awarding prizes to the artists she judges the best. My question is; How is a winner picked? Is it all her opinion? Should I have researched her interests before creating my artwork so I know she will already be favorable to my painting? Juried art shows just don't make sense to me.

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Is this art?

Can art be created for a specific message?

Art?

My brother loves this online comic strip, it makes me wonder, is THIS art?
Who are we to define art anyway?

VR?

In the future, instead of watching movies or reading novels, people will make use of virtual reality that produces experience indistinguishable from the experience reality would produce. Do you expect that you will make use of this, the principal art form of the 21st century? Perhaps there will be a "deluxe" version of virtual reality (DVR): when you use it, you forget that you are experiencing a merely virtual reality. Would you use DVR?

What makes an idea of something an idea of it?

Mental representation as resemblance?

It won’t work across the board, since some of the things of which we have ideas don’t look like anything (since they are abstract, e.g., the number 43, or immaterial, e.g., God), but maybe some ideas are ideas of what they are ideas of because they resemble them. Maybe Tyler’s idea of a football is an idea of a football because it looks like a football. Its shape resembles that of a football.

Materialists say that the mind is just the brain, so if Tyler has any mental pictures, they are in his brain. However, if we look inside his brain while he is thinking about the football, we won’t see anything that looks like a football, nothing shaped like a football. So, either there are no mental pictures in the brain, or they are a very special sort of picture, ones we can’t see even though we look at them (invisible pictures?) Only Tyler sees them, even though he never looks at his brain.

Dualists say that the mind is immaterial, something that has no physical properties, no shape, size, color, etc. If Tyler has a mental picture, it is some state of, or event in, this immaterial mind. But if something looks like a football in virtue of having the same shape as a football, then it is hard to believe there is a picture in his mind, since it’s hard to believe something that has no shape, size, or any other physical property contains something shaped like a football.

So, if there are mental pictures that represent physical things in virtue of resembling them, where are they?

P.S. At the end of this sentence there's a picture of a football viewed from 1000 yards.