Creative Rhetorics notes

Clarify how creativity is talked aboutEnable us to talk with precision about creativityDevelop practice; techniques/definitionsPotentially expand discipline

Blade Runner, Scott Ridley and Runner


Practice-based beginning, studio (supports creativity) arts and crafts
Best idea – always next creativity dynamic  George Dickie 1971 - art is beyond definition constantly changing - the history of aesthetics
Be Stupid – using heart not head  expressionist theory linked to Romanticism idea that creativity is a knowledge gaining activity opposition to sciences
Work in teams – creative process, collaborative

The artist is a creator, not an imitator, stand aside from the rules, rule breaker and definer
own master and owner of the discipline, expanding the discipline

Flow illustrated by working methods Studio Ghibli

Director Hayao Miyazaki talks about how narrative award winning film Spirited Away 2001, collaboratively and incrementally

Internet is the biggest idea since the wheel, enables lots of small ideas to circulate -that combination of a trillion little ideas is in itself the biggest idea there is. We are at the most interesting point of communications history ever'.

Creativity is a subject thing as it isn't material; it cannot be measured and what is or isn't creative is more often than not opinionated, especially in the realms of film, games and animation; but I think the word that best describes creativity is originality - even though something needn't be original to be creative, the most creative things I think can be summarized as the most original -which ties into what was said about artists not being imitators, but creators. Overall it has been good to reflect on these thoughts on how creativity comes to be and how it is encouraged or assessed.