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Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Neuroscientist. Former Fellow of von Consequently, by asking how to develop this energy in the face of the
Humboldt Foundation, DAAD, British Royal Society, Ford Foundation, complexity of the world, questioning the need for free mental space,
Foundation´s Fund for Research in Psychiatry, former Full Professor man is experiencing a journey where reality and the virtual go hand in
(tenured) at College of Medicine (USF, FL USA). Fiction writer. Several hand: two dimensions which are no longer disjoined, in that the virtual
local and regional art exhibits and awards. A work of art is thus the end is nothing other than an “as-if” reality. Now, the contents aspect of
result of a specific process – possessing a specific form and aesthetic, any work of art lie in the presupposition that the artist is in fact able to
it serves no purpose except that of channeling a very specific form of explain the most concealed of man’s movements and desires. Once
energy. It is always a sort of communicative performance. It allows this clarity has been acquired, the artist can purposefully use the
man to plumb his own conscience and to void it. In fact, it is only within talent he has been given. His raw material will always be the conscious
empty spaces that energy is able to unleash its own creative force. awareness of his own energy, his mental resources. (Excerpt)
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