Tag: Creativity
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On taking note in an world dominated by AI
The longer I work as a creative, the more I am convinced that all creativity lies in a keen sense of observation, and the good sense to take note. Creativity, I firmly believe, is a skill, not a talent, in contrast to the carefully perpetuated myth of the genius, artist, architect, and designer who are…
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I’m thinking of becoming a Dadaist
do not be alarmed the bellow should be considered to be satire…see ‘The mutterings project’ for prior reference. One reaches a moment in ones life, where the future seems to stretch out into infinite dullness. filled with administration and management, of things and others- lackluster. No amount of incentive seems to, be enough to band-aid…
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The most liberating idea in creative practice
Your work doesn’t matter. Yes you heard that right. It has recently occurred to me, that my work doesn’t matter. I’m unlikely to change the course of history by making art that counters issues of the Anthropocene. Mostly the people I work with have no interest in my work at all not beyond a citation…
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…Before Breakfast
As in; as in ‘I can think of six impossible things…’ Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said. ‘One can’t believe impossible things.’ I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes, I’ve believed as many…
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About creative practice research, thinking with things (Part 1)
What does it mean to think with things? To entwine one’s mind with the more than human entities that dwell within vital terrains, urban or otherwise? To use a commonly accepted definition of creative research, Christopher Frailing, in his paper on research in art and design, suggests that for an activity to count in either…
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That which makes us human: about the creative impulse and ChattieG.
I’m trying to change the world one sequin at a time-Lady GaGa In the last few months, as an academic whose work deals with both the existential threats of climate change and the balanity of teaching basics of building construction to first years, among a host of healthy, dull administrative duties, I find myself facing…