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.
Here’s a photo taken of my bedroom around 2007. You can see that I’m now using my wall as a place to stimulate my brain in many different areas. I don’t usually use my studio/bedroom walls as places to explore one single project but rather explore all the different areas of interest at once. often placing the images next to each other in ways that bare no logical or strait forward relationship.
This is one of the earliest mind maps i have recorded. It was put together in my first year at uni. When I went to uni (in Surrey I had grown up in Yorkshire) the whole experience was very disconnected from my life previously so this was a way of connecting the two creating one mental landscape out of two separate parts.
