Recognizing Art (or "How I learned about omphaloskepsis")

[Michael Oltmans <moltmans@>]

In a loosely affiliated, unofficial, under the table partnership with 
"Recognizing Art" we bring you this weeks GSB message:

Q: What do you call a guy with no arms and no legs hanging on the wall 
at GSB?
A: Art

But not all questions have such simple straight forward answers.  For 
example:

What is in a name?
What is art?
What is recognition?
What is "is"?
What is "Recognizing Art?"

These are all questions that you may have asked yourself while gazing at 
your belly button.  We here at GSB finally have the answers.  After 
extensive research, experimentation, stretching exercises, and soul 
searching we are ready to present to you: The Truth!

The truth will shock you.  The truth will make you question everything 
you thought you knew.  The truth is inconvenient.  The truth is we 
didn't really do any research, experimentation, stretching exercises, or 
soul searching (I did scratch some lint out of my belly button though). 
 The truth is we didn't even do any web searching.  The truth is we 
just got the same email that you did AND read it.  The truth is, well, 
actually, the truth is on this web page: 
https://projects.csail.mit.edu/student-committee/survey/index.cgi?survey=RecognizingArt
(sorry, if you aren't in csail you probably can't see the page, but you 
can still come see the truth live at GSB).

All the same, the truth will shock you and make you question everything, 
even why you chose General Gau's chicken over the peanut tofu for lunch.
If you still don't understand and especially if you don't understand 
that you don't understand, come to tonights Art show (yes there really 
is an art show).  It'll be just like a big gallery art opening except we 
won't have wine, cheese, cigarettes in long holders, celebrities, or 
fancy little black dresses.  We'll just have some pretty darn cool art 
from your fellow CSAILers curated by Wanmei and catered with the usual 
fare that can be found each week at...

           +-                                                  -+
             girl scout benefit -+-  5:30 pm  -+- 32-G9 lounge
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              For those coming from elsewhere: Building 32 is
               <http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=32>
          Once you are in 32, just take the G-elevator to the 9th
      floor and we will be in the lounge that you will be looking at
                    <http://projects.csail.mit.edu/gsb>




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