Composers as Gardeners
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Composers as Gardeners
"I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens." And now, in his most improbable guise yet, as artistic director of the 2010 Brighton festival, Eno wants to programme works that demonstrate why surrender is key to the sort of music and art that excite him. "I came to this idea because I noticed that when I set up ... See more
Stuart Jeffries • Surrender. It's Brian Eno
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- Sculpting vs. gardening
If the raw material for creative work becomes sequences and intuition instead of rules , essences , and processes, how you do your work is going to look significantly different. It will look more like gardening as opposed to sculpting .
In a pre-AI world, creative work was similar to sculpting. Whether you were coding or writ
... See moreDan Shipper • Five New Thinking Styles for Working With Thinking Machines
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Previous eras of creativity have mostly looked a bit like sculpting. A sculptor takes a block of material and carves it, slowly but surely, into shape. Nothing happens without her hand. Even when an assistant is involved, the sculptor pores over the project, because their human input is important at every point of the process. So too with writing, ... See more
Capability Blindness and the Future of Creativity
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The age of AI: We used to be sculptors. We're all about to be gardeners.
And then, after contemplation, the artist and the gardener both adopt a posture of purposeful work. They bring their creativity and effort to their calling. The gardener tends what has gone before, making the most of what is beautiful and weeding out what is distracting or useless. The artist can be more daring: she starts with a blank canvas or a
... See moreAndy Crouch • Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling
This is true of everything in the garden. Each flower, tree, and vine is seen in relation to the whole by the gardener so that the visitors can have unique yet coherent experiences as they find their own paths through the garden. We create the garden as a sort of experience generator, capable of infinite expression and meaning.
Mike Caufield • The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral
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"The question is: ‘Is the act of getting attention a sufficient act for an artist? Or is that in fact the job description?’"
Maria Popova • Brian Eno on Creativity, Confidence, and How Attention Creates Value
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Digital gardens hold a component of discovery where gardeners may be delighted or surprised by what they may find. They are designed to embrace a culture of learning, where one may be open to be changed by ideas.
On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
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In their book The Gardens of Democracy, Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer argue that moving from ‘machinebrain’ to ‘gardenbrain’ thinking calls for a simultaneous shift away from believing that things will self-regulate to realising that things need stewarding. ‘To be a gardener is not to let nature take its course; it is to tend,’ they write, ‘Gardeners d
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