A Selected Reading, With Yes-No Commentary, of Purported Information Concerning my ENTJ Personality Type, Most of Which I Vehemently Disagree With (2015)

2015, C-print, 32x20

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A recent Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test revealed my personality as an ENTJ, and I couldn’t disagree more with this. A logical part of me acknowledged the absurdity of the test, but another felt somehow cornered by the data, as if its empiricalness had more gravity. Clearly a mild schizophrenic dualism there, like the design of the test itself.

So what I did is I decided to read a selection of data from the results, which apparently describe an ENTJ’s typical qualities, and respond to each with either a ‘yes’ or a ‘no’; to go on record, if you like, and freeze the cognitive dissonance wrapped up in the test and my relation to it. The audio from the reading was then placed in an open-source signal analysis program, unearthing the recording’s spectral density, the energy going on behind the scenes. A sound map is what this is. On the y-axis is the duration of the audio (06:16); on the x-axis, frequency range (∆ 387.7372Hz); and in the z-plane, its amplitude parameters (+4.7509Hz). And let your data always, be mutable.

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  • Year Created: 2015
  • Submitted to ArtBase: Tuesday Jul 28th, 2015
  • Original Url: http://joshualiebowitz.com/
  • Work Credits:
    • joshualiebowitz, primary creator
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