Dr. Genevieve von Petzinger

Okay.

So first off, we need to start with what is art?

Let's go all philosophical.

We're getting all existential.

Okay.

So we in the field use the term art because it's a very convenient three-letter word, right?

Okay.

So that when we're speaking amongst ourselves, we might use it as shorthand, but think of it as an umbrella term.

Same way they use AI to mean like everything that's machine learning, we're using art in a similar way, which is that when we say art, we mean everything from

graffiti in the bathroom up to the Mona Lisa, right?

So it's the full range.

We are referring to any type of visual mark making.

And so if I was being technically correct, or if I was giving a talk at a conference, like with my academic fellow academics, or if I was writing a paper, if I use the word art, I'd probably use it in quotation marks.

And I'd be more likely to say graphic communication or graphic marks.

Okay.

So that that way we're pulling out because art almost has like

a lot of Western connotations to it of like aesthetics and like, what is, what is art and what is beautiful and what is right.

So let's pull that back.

And what we want to talk about is the actual function of our ancestors making visual graphic marks on things with intention.

That's what we're aiming for.