One of the questions people always ask me is how web differs from what happens in the building and that’s a difficult thing to get…
Read MoreI’ve had a lot of time to mull over the results of the Split Second, so here are a few of my thoughts—roughly one week…
Read MoreI am listed as a contributor to the Split Second project, but I really wasn’t the brains behind it; I’m just the person who okayed…
Read MoreA big part of experiencing art is talking about it. Sometimes (or, uh, frequently) artworks are successful because they provoke disagreement, and along with that…
Read MoreIn the previous post I closed by noting that depending on what participants were asked to do, visual complexity could affect their ratings. Indeed, we…
Read MoreComplexity is an important factor in the evaluation of art. In all of the previous Split Second blog posts I’ve talked about how the complexity…
Read MoreIn previous Split Second blog posts, we looked at the effects of thin-slicing, textual information, and gender. Put another way, we were studying the effects…
Read MoreIn the last blog post about Split Second, I talked about how adding extra information about a work changed what people thought about it. In…
Read MoreWith the initiation of the project Split Second, Joan Cummins, Curator of Asian Art selected a very large number (185) of works from the Museum’s…
Read MoreLast week I talked about our Split Second: Indian Paintings exhibition and Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. In the previous…
Read MoreA big inspiration for Split Second: Indian Paintings was the book Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell. Blink introduced the general…
Read MoreWatching Split Second: Indian Paintings get installed into the gallery this week has been a real thrill for me. I believe it is vital that…
Read MoreThe online evaluation phase of Split Second: Indian Paintings came to a close yesterday evening and now it’s time to say thanks to everyone who gave us…
Read MoreThis post continues the discussion about the tool we developed for Split Second. Once you get past stressing and (possibly) scrolling in the timed trial, the…
Read MoreOne of the things we wanted to do with Split Second is talk about the tool that we developed for the online activity. Much like…
Read MoreToday, we are launching Split Second: Indian Paintings and it’s something I’ve been excited about for quite a while. Split Second is an opportunity to…
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