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Download full building map (pdf)Jake Miller Art
As an artist passionate about his Indianapolis roots and technology background, Jake Miller’s watercolor and charcoal works manifest from a very personal space. Each piece is a gestalt impression that reflects the artist's point-in-time emotions, attitude, and mood. Miller's raw experimental style is intended to evoke in others the same passion, anger, joy, frustration, excitement, disappointment, anxiety, wonder, curiosity, levity, and a harlequin of other emotions intrinsic to the human experience. As a Software Engineer, Miller's intellectual interests range from computational semantics and pragmatics and cognitive linguistics to dissecting "the Poetics of Mind" a la Mark Turner. Exploring the structure of all living things—including human thought—Miller investigates the relationship between what is seemingly organic, chaotic, random, and spontaneous and what is predictable, certain, constructed, and mathematical. Drawing on the literature of Ray Kurzweil, George Lakeoff, Mark Turner, Ned Block, Fauconnier, Charles Gibbs, and Daniel Dennett, Miller uses his experience in software development to examine the overlap between consciousness, conscience, and automation to analyze memory and emotions through artistic expression. Asking questions like, "Is every brain the same?" and "What is a mind?", Miller uses art as a lens to open up a dialogue about the increasingly blurry line between man and machine, object and omniscience.
Jake Miller's works are also available as archival quality, numbered prints and he is interested in exploring new mediums and materials, as well as accepting commissions for new work.