Creativity

Everyone supposes—it’s built into the idea—that creativity is scarce. It doesn’t come around every day. But, since it’s a good thing, it needs to be nourished and given special care, so that we can have more of it. Experts give seminars in how to do that. Consultants advise clients on the special methods needed to re-organize their enterprises so... See more

The School for Poetic Computation is an experimental school in New York City and online supporting interdisciplinary

study in art, code, hardware and critical theory. Applications have closed for our Summer 2025 online classes, but you can still sign up for our Weekend Intensives in July in-person in NYC. Click below to learn more.

To make something good, just do it. To make something great, just redo it, redo it, redo it. The secret to making fine things is in remaking them.

I even resisted sitting at a desk, so my studio mates rarely saw me, and most of my work was done in nature, underneath trees, by the water, and sometimes in cafés, galleries, and the botanical garden. And the rest was a vast, empty space that I didn’t know how to navigate any more than I knew how to start drawing from a blank piece of paper.

If we give them the room to breathe, creative works can live multiple lives. The works will stay online for years, decades even. It will make someone else’s work better, and potentially continue to create new value. Some creations are built for the moment, while some are built for a lifetime. But the secret is motivation. If a company decides one

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