ICUL CTION Special Edition ART A C o n t e m p o r a r y A r t R e v i e w Special Issue They get to juxtapose that with their own ways of knowing. Artistic culture then can act as a General Adversarial Network to Technologies influence on our ways of being. It can counter balance this unconscious influence on society’s future. Need this be explicitly a social political criticism? I’m not sure. I can see both critical and subversive means of addressing and engaging an audience. I think which is the better methodology is best determined by the artist themselves. I prefer engagement to making a point. Maybe my works are too obscure or timid, but I think that subtle murmurs are more persuasive to whom I think my audience might be. Your artworks reflects such unique convergence between real world and the realm of perception, and at the same time they are sapiently imbued with powerful narrative drive: how does your memories and youreveryday life's experience fuel your creative process? Gregory A McCullough:I think all creativity is personal. It might be confluential with another, but it’s rooted in ourselves, in our being. Our being, hence our agency is formed in how we engage with life. To wit, your ‘everyday life’s experience’. So there is an elemental feedback loop in living and being creative. I often wonder if my desire to continually seek new understandings is founded in my childhood experience of riding in my parents car, watching the world slide by and hearing my Dads’ saying– did you see that? He wanted to share his amazement. Then every year, on hearing the singing of the Christmas carols .. “do you see what I see?” …it makes me wonder? Is that all
