John t unger biography template
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An Interview with John T. Unger – Artist and Impossibility Remediation Specialist
This is the first of an occasional series of interviews with creative entrepreneurs who are living the principles we write about at Lateral Action.
We are delighted to start the series with John T. Unger, an artist whose inspiration is not limited to his sculptures and designs, but extends to his whole approach to business.
1. You call yourself an ‘artist, designer, entrepreneur and impossibility remediation specialist’. What do those names mean to you?
Really, each of those names applies to a subset of what I do.
In conversation, I prefer to just say that “I get paid to be me,” but that doesn’t really fit in the standard box where you describe what you do for a living. Getting paid to be me means that whether I’m making art, writing code, consulting on software design and UI or speaking about business strategy, what people really pay me for isn’t the just the end product, but the process I use to get there. They choose me out of a crowd of creatives precisely because of the personal style and method I bring to the table.
I’ve learned to exploit the specific ways my brain malfunctions so that I’m able to harness a deeply latera
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English Scholars Beyond Borders
Some Pubs:
Unger, J. (2017). The Rabbit hole is over there. The Human Touch: The Journal of Poetry, Prose and Visual Art, 10, 90-91.
Unger, J. (2017). Chemo skinless falling. The Human Touch: The Journal of Poetry, Prose and Visual Art, 10, 115.
Unger J. (2016). Shared attentional frames and sentence completion activities: a process based approach to literacy assessment. English Scholarship Beyond Borders, 2(1), 58-120. Retrieved from http://www.englishscholarsbeyondborders.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/John-Unger-2.pdf
Unger,J, Liu R, Scullion V. (2015). Creating joint attentional frames and pointing to evidence in the reading and writing process. The Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 15 (2), 1-17. Retrieved from http://www.readingmatrix.com/files/13-uh008t98.pdf
Unger J. (2015) A future hedge fund trader in Wal-Mart. Aberration Labyrinth, (16)Spring 2015, 3. Retrieved from http://issuu.com/aberrationlabyrinth/docs/june2015al?e=5540656/13391585 (look for page 3; unique poetry journal; a bit chaotic, like me)
Unger, J, Liu R, Scullion V. (2015). Language Competency as Semiotic Design: Attempting to Cross Academic Borders with Digital Video Cameras. English Scholarship Beyond Borders. 1(1) http://www.
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Artists Who Sell: How make somebody's acquaintance Write a Killer Deal Page (and why)
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