[-empyre-] digital writing and whole-brain thinking

["Christine Goldbeck" <cgoldie@verizon.net>]

Hi:

Has anyone read Dan Pink's "A Whole New Mind"?

I ask because when I read it, post-thesis, I felt that it validated my 
assertion (well not only mine, I guess) that digital writing is "whole-brain 
art". That is, its practitioners heavily rely on integrated thinking and 
doing rather than on traditional ways of thought through reliance on either 
left brain or right brain.

For example, as artist, writer and designer of the digital fictio :Covalent 
Bonds" (www. christinegoldbeck.com), I believe I learned to think 
simultaneously about code, line/color/composition and text/story.  In that 
sentence, I am, of course, simplifying what I found to be an interesting 
process wherein objects and elements formerly separate in my thinking and 
doing converged to a point that I became capable, maybe even skilled, at 
visualizing the sum of the lexia before it was recorded.

Pink's book is an easy read. I think it's also worthy of discussion from 
sociocommercial, sociopolitical and academic points of view. (This is the 
text wherein it is asserted that the MFA is the new MBA. Thus, I wonder how 
significantly convergence and evolution of screen thinking play into the 
social elevation of the MFA.)

Sincerely,
Christine