creativity

Wolfgang Sigmund

water-repellent hairy surfaces

“Most people that publish in this field always go for these perfect structures, and we are the first to show that the bad ones are the better ones,” Sigmund said. “Of course this is a finding in a lab. This is not something you expect from theory.”



creativity, nano, waves

William Bernbach

“You just can’t squeeze life into a package. It’s going to ooze out here and there. I think it’s terribly important to be aware of this. Not to be aware of it may lead to an overevaluation of rules and techniques, a tendency to distort and ignore life when it doesn’t fit nicely into your system or theory.”

William Bernbach, “Sometimes I play Things I never heard Myself” in Bierut, Michael. Looking closer 3: classic writings on graphic design. 1999. Page 150



academia, branding, creativity, design

Pleix

branding films for newborn hybrid art-ad babies



ads, art, branding, creativity, typography, video

TaoTeChing.org


Who recognizes his limitations is healthy;
Who ignores his limitations is sick.
The sage recognizes this sickness as a limitation.
And so becomes immune.



creativity, theory

Agnes Martin (1997)


“I don’t have any ideas myself; I have a vacant mind, in order to do exactly what the inspiration calls for… Art is responded to with emotion… art is not intellectual at all. … I guess I am rather extreme. I think we don’t deserve any credit. The inspiration comes to me and tells me exactly what to do… I gave up all of theory… so that leaves me with a clear mind. … An empty mind, so when something comes into it, you can see it… “



academia, art, artist, conduit, creativity, theory, thought

INTERVIEW PROJECT – NEW EPISODE EVERY THREE DAYS


David Lynch presents….



itinerant interviews
from the underbelly
of the overhead



compassion, creativity, video

The importance of stupidity

“The more comfortable we become with being stupid, the deeper we will wade into the unknown and the more likely we are to make big discoveries.”

The importance of stupidity in scientific research. Schwartz 121 (11): 1771. Journal of Cell Science



creativity, stupidity

dShed: The Harvest

“I hope we’ll be in this business for generations to come.”



activist, creativity, factory, humanoid, video

Late Bloomers

Malcolm Gladwell: “If you are the type of creative mind that starts without a plan, and has to experiment and learn by doing, you need someone to see you through the long and difficult time it takes for your art to reach its true level.”



creativity, time

Import-Export — Ulrich Seidl

“my scripts are only outlines for what to shoot. At some point the film begins, and my crew and I start on a journey. The journey has a destination but nobody knows the route it’ll take to get there. It’s a process that develops, and there are frequent interruptions because I simply don’t know what to do next.”



autopoiesis, collaboration, creativity

Wislawa Szymborska


“I’ve mentioned inspiration. Contemporary poets answer evasively when asked what it is, and if it actually exists. It’s not that they’ve never known the blessing of this inner impulse. It’s just not easy to explain something to someone else that you don’t understand yourself.” ( 1996. Nobel Lecture )



advice, creativity, genius, poet

Mark Tilden

exhibit research | Mark Tilden interview

Q: Would you say that these robots have some type of creativity?

A: As yet, we have not seen that. What we have seen are devices which we call the queens, which are one of our nervous net controllers, embedded into another form of nervous net controller. And what that allows us to do is make devices that are, in fact, capable of learning, that are subject to moods.



AI, affect, creativity, queen

the ne plus ultra project: good memes for better genes


“…you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence, and the gift of revulsion against its implications…”



consciousness, creativity, memes, posthuman

Edge: THE PANCAKE PEOPLE, OR, “THE GODS ARE POUNDING MY HEAD”

Lewis Fry Richardson’s answer to the question of creative thinking by machines is a circuit diagram, drawn in the late 1920s and published in 1930, illustrating a self-excited, non-deterministic circuit with two semi-stable states, captioned “Electrical Model illustrating a Mind having a Will but capable of only Two Ideas.”



creativity, god, ideas, mind, schematic, thought, will