This is a talk given by myself (Andre Wood). The talk is about a research project entitled Building Blocks.
Building blocks is best understood as an ongoing research project exploring how the use of visual editing processes or mind maps can aid in developing creative ideas/ways of thinking.
The talk explores how the editing/organizing of visual media enabled my practice to develop and how this way of editing/organizing visual media relates to broader issues. Such as how the two hemispheres of the brain work (particularly in relation to people with dyslexia), how our society has been shaped by ideas surrounding structure and order which emerged out of the enlightenment and how the global community interacts/digests media through digital technology.
the talk is around 30mins in length but also includes a 4min music video and at the end around 40mins of questions and answers.
By shifting emphasis from the ‘end process’ to the ‘development process’. I hope Building Blocks will create debate and develop skills around the creative processes we employ to enable new ideas/thoughts perceptions to come into being.
This is a cabinet of curiosity. They used to be found in the houses of well to do people around the 17century and where filled with objects whose categorical boundaries were yet to be defined. Through the enlightenment all of these objects would gradually be placed within categories such as art, natural history, archeology etc but at the time they where simply wonders of the world all muddled together. What I’m trying to do with building blocks is return to this muddled way of viewing the world very similar to how a child might see the world before everything is separated into different categories. enabling us to see relationships between things which might normally be placed in entirely different categories.
