publisher
Matthew Dallman
POLYSEMY is the website that aims to inspire working fine artists to synthesize the traditional with the
contemporary. POLYSEMY provides intelligent discussions, research, insight, and motivation
that seek to shed light upon the nature of the various aesthetic disciplines (e.g., music, painting, dance, poetry, sculpture, film, etc.) in order to make enduring works that
operate on multiple levels of perception.
Commonality lies
at the roots of all innovative endeavor — a commonality that can be articulated and discussed.
The definition of "polysemy" is 'having multiple meanings'. The notion that works of fine art provide
multiple meanings is a traditional view that POLYSEMY renews and updates.
For example, Matthew Dallman often uses is "entertainment, education, and enlightenment", with
enduring works of art working on each level in relationship with audiences, individually and collectively.
POLYSEMY is dedicated to the proposition that the fine arts are living traditions of imagination
requiring constant renewal by artists; each work of fine art is a resonator that renews. These traditions,
which can and do wither and decay, are based upon resonance, beauty,
wisdom, awe, mystery; traditions that defy categories of time, and are the result of both
verbal and nonverbal conversations between the works of imaginative people across the ages; truly "great" conversations
about great ideas and great perceptions ("great" as in wide, encompassing, superior).
POLYSEMY's project is to frame
practical inspiration, insight, and intuition to be
applied towards the bringing forth of contemporary fine artistry. In this way POLYSEMY seeks to be a useful companion
to working fine artists.
POLYSEMY Online debuted in May, 2006, and is a collection of blogs and commentary.
POLYSEMY Print shipped a one-time, 32-pg, four-color magazine in Summer 2006.
Currently it is on hiatus, but will soon be reinstated as a free subscription newsletter
comprised of one lengthy article per issue, and shipped three times per year.
POLYSEMY staff emeriti: 2005-2009: Hannah Dallman, Dan Allison, Paul Salamone, Thom Morgan,
Ben Rogerson, Jean Rivard, and Victoria Lansford. 2007-2009: William Harryman. 2008-2009: John Craig.
POLYSEMY is published in Chicago by Electric Goose Productions.
It is printed by Futura Printing in Oswego, IL. TCBands.com provides all web support.
Please direct correspondence to editor [at] polysemy [dot] org.
©2009-10 POLYSEMY. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without written permission is prohibited.
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