Ideas developed in A Theory of Error explore notions of art and corporality, and in particular art representing the brain and mechanisms of thought, reflections about exploring the creative process and considering thought when the brain is simulated through digital imaging.Using personal thought processes as a model, this project explores the creative process resulting from error. Error, not in the mechanical or technical sense, or even in the form of diagnosed mental conflicts, but discussed in terms of cognitive functioning.In this instance the conception of error may be referred to as unpredictable disturbances to thought patterns.Forming a theoretical background to the project are various interwoven theories from cognitive psychology, neuroscience, art and technology that examine the mechanisms of creativity in relation to mutation and disorder, chaos and abstraction [1].A Theory of Error is illustrated through visual metaphors, a weave of text and image, constructing a picture of a thought.
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