Creative Tech Week

When I was in art school my professor once told me, "If you're trying to achieve a goal, you're doing it wrong". These words really stuck with me and since then I have developed a fairly elaborate framework for understanding the role that Purpose plays in the creative process. With a background in engineering and entrepreneurship, I aim to free myself, for the most part, of the artificial constraints imposed by the pressures of both the art-world and the "creative class". A metaphorical map of idea space, knowledge space and motivation space will be presented, and code-generated variations of each will will be represented in 2D graphical form. The goal: to expand the overlapping regions of these spaces and maximize our "manifestable reality space". In other words: getting smarter, more creative and more motivated leads to new breakthroughs. Armed with these tools, we will take a look at some examples of what can be accomplished and why this is relevant in 21st century art.