Everyone has a bias. They are ingrained in us from an early age and change as we move through our lives. Our parents influence our biases and our preferences also influence our biases. I am finding more and more how much biases can affect artistic work. It isn't surprising, as any artistic endeavor is very personal and introspective. I think a great example of this is an article I recently read about confirmation bias and the way it influences how we listen to music. The neuroscientist who conducted the study stated that, "as music unfolds, the brain constantly updates its estimates of when new beats will occur, and takes satisfaction in matching a mental beat with a real-in-the-world one." This explains why we find ourselves listening to the same band or the same song over and over again, we, as humans, enjoy knowing what's coming and we find comfort in knowing what will come next.
While reading some of the monuments pieces I felt as if each of them had something that they needed to prove. For example, for the Tate piece felt the need to expose what history has done to people. Each level exposed how much each person was taken advantage of in service of someone else. For the rumors of war piece exposed the whole idealism of the past resurrecting a past historical leader to make sure that the event does not happen again. The Bracero monument exposed all of the work that the people of that time had done in order to make sure that not another person is taken advantage of again. But truth be told, all of these monuments have come with some sort of backlash. The bracero monument had gotten criticism for stating that the braceros were free to do what they wished. From what the article had stated that was not the truth. It was merely one persons interpretation of what a bracero was, b...
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