Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Problem Finding

The readings for this week in the Psychology of Creativity course I'm taking this term were about 'problem finding in art'- about that part of the creative process that people make if they are discovery oriented. The concept is that, if given the assignment to make something, some people will use preexisting models and work toward goals that are already defined and known. Others have less of a set idea of outcome and are willing to engage in problem finding, problem formulation, problem solution and problem evaluation as they create their artifact.

Key words/ideas I picked up are:
  • "Formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution" - Einstein
  • Deeper questioning, discovery, and taking on new perspectives is the foundation for creative work.
  • Personally felt intentions
  • Originality
  • Creative Research = finding problems that can be solved


Friday, January 21, 2011

Collaborators

Collaborating with artists in other disciplines is central to my project interests. I am curious to hear and see how people translate ideas of navigation, aloneness vs. group membership, maps, and personal geographic history through their particular medium: sound design, visual art, video & performance technology, costuming, and set design.
The list of collaborators continues to grow, and my thinking about creative possibilities has been expanded by recent meetings with visual artist Collin McRae and Performance Technology and Media aficionado Kyle Kramer. The intersections of two or more ideas put together in interesting ways seem to be ripe with potential. I don't want to give too much away here, but collisions between the pools of material (as Joe Goode terms them) are going to happen very soon!

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Project: Thesis

I'm going to use this blog to record and display the questioning, thinking, studio-based methodologies, etc. regarding my MFA thesis work loosely titled: Performing Geography.