Creativity, Spontaneity and Poetry…

The search for new forms of communication is now part of a collective effort. In this way the old specialization of art has finally come to an end. There are no more artists because everyone is an artist. The work of art of the future will be the contruction of a passionate life.
Raoul Vaneigem
 
The same [...]

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creative 20/20 summit? maybe 10/20….good work keep going..

well I feel I need to blog this. after the 20 20 summit in canberra with mr rudd.
here is a link to “Towards a creative Australia: the future of the arts, film and design” and the background briefing paper.
It is good to know that: “We value our artists, film-makers, designers, authors, playwrights and performers because [...]

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not rocket science…

but useful nonetheless…
There are two main strategies we can adopt to improve the quality of life. The first is to try making external conditions match our goals. The second is to change how we experience external conditions to make them fit our goals better.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi,  Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990   

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ποίησις – poesis

greek from ποιέω
 ”to make”, Latin poesis (see also -poiesis).

fabrication, creation, production,
poetry, poetic composition
magical procedure

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back to the dérive

Debord’s The Naked City (1957), as a map of the dérive, is said to bring out those differences that are suppressed by the abstract and homogeneous descriptions of the ‘voyeur’, by fragmenting and re-connecting the Plan de Paris. In the dérive, the city is experienced as a cluster of events, never fully seen and always contingent: ”there are spaces where experiences [...]

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ontology

Ontology, in its long-established philosophical sense, seeks to identify the constituents of reality. In its more recent information systems sense, an ontology is “a logical theory which gives an explicit, partial account of a conceptualization” (Guarino and Giaretta, 1995, p. 32). The ontology stipulates the taxonomy that [...]

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Dérive — Guy Debord / Sadie Plant

“‘The Arts of the Future will be radical transformations of situations, or they will be nothing” Cineaste, Guy Debord   
Dérive
In philosophy, a Dérive is a French concept meaning an aimless walk, probably through city streets, that follows the whim of the moment. It is sometimes translated as a drift.
French philosopher and Situationist Guy Debord used this idea to get people to revisit the way they looked [...]

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