CCT204H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: The Act Of Creation, Visual Pun, Nuclear Weapon
22 Sep 2017
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Bisociation: mixture in one human mind that combines two unrelated things, thinking process that is the functional basis for metaphoric thinking, arthur koestler. Studying history is important to creativity: not only historic art pieces, but history itself as well. Visual pun: an example of bisociation, i. e. tea kettle setting off a nuclear bomb. Shannon and weaver defined three levels of communication problems. We associate certain symbols with certain things, even though they"re not related: i. e. the swastika is associated with nazi germany since nazis have used it as their symbol, even though it symbolizes well-being in india (sanskrit) What kind of process is sketching: brainstorming, putting ideas on paper, dialectic process: oscillations of arguments which brings about gradual transformation of images. When he guiding image is developing: it remains tentative, generic, vague. It remains more organic: it uses topological shame vs geometrical shapes, it represents a range of possibilities without being committed, sketch cannot be identical with mental image.
