Abstract - This thesis will consider the creative process of the arts as a life method that awakens an awareness that develops thinking, aesthetic inquiry, creative activity and heuristic reflection of the beautiful and the sublime. Central to this argument is an examination of the disparate views between leaders in the field of education that pit logic against imagination and creativity. What does it mean to be a lifelong learner who contributes as a citizen in the twenty-first century? The argument for this thesis will consider the space of the sublime as the place of learning. The sublime coexists and challenges the notion of an ideal beauty. Within the sublime, abject media, failure, chance operations and doubt exist throughout the process of learning. The sublime is the doorway to learning: it reveals the limits of sense and reason which expose the boundary of what is known. Through the electronic apparatus of the computer, the Internet and hypermedia, new ways of learning are opened without a teacher. The conclusions of this thesis suggest that hypermediation will displace conventional literacy and reveals the sublime as a new space for lifelong learning.
Timeline - Here is a timeline that shows the creative works that emerge through an understanding of interdisciplinary practices. Einstein used his visual capacity of imagination to create as a physicist (science & art). Picasso often socialized with mathematicians who discussed theories of space-time that effected the thinking behind his painting (art & science).
Open timeline - LightShadowTimeline7.htm
Media Project - Light & Shadow
Light & Shadow was commissioned by The Western New York Institute as a work of art based anniversary of The Pan American Exposition of 1901 in Buffalo.
I began my research on the web. What I found on-line was a diary (that someone found in their attic) of a young girl who travel to the Pan Am in 1901 on a train from somewhere near Sagertown, Pa. I was impressed with the sophistication of her language and wonderful descriptive abilities to recount her journey form town to town on her journey to Buffalo.
Having traveled from New York City to Buffalo on many occasions myself, I decided I would compare her journey to my own trips to Buffalo. I created a portrait of 1901 digitally embedded into 2001.
Through a virtual recreation of her 1901 experience I assembled photos (from the young girls diary) and countless images from The Buffalo Historical Society, The Charles Penney Research Foundation, and videos of my own trips to Buffalo.
What emerged is a 45:00 minute digital movie of past and present with images, texts and music layered one upon the other, both in the editing process and in the presentation process, by means of three video projections that appear on a spatially “honey-combed” fabric environment. 
Grain elevators, rheostats, asphalt, electricity and new technologies transformed through unexpected relationships between past and present images of power and identity.
McKinley, Czolgosz, Geronimo, Goldman, Edison, Dart and an (unknown) young girl intersect in the great port of Buffalo.
Open file - LightAndShadow.htm
Contextual Information - I began my research on the web. What I found on-line was a diary (that someone found in their attic) of a young girl who travel to the Pan Am in 1901 on a train from somewhere near Sagertown, Pa. The young girls diary became a timeline that weaves the present with past.
Open file - DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL -
http://www.innereye.net/LightAndShadow/DiaryOfAYoungGirl.htm
Review - by Richard Huntington
