The purpose of this paper is to explore group creative processes in a virtual environment to better understand how virtual communication influences creativity. After reviewing literature, a theoretical foundation in creativity was established and with three common themes derived: Task motivation and task orientation, social environment and participation, and communication. This was coupled with a review of current virtual team interaction theories, demonstrating intersections between them. The method used was a qualitative exploration using semi-structured in-depth interviews. The interviews were conducted via VOIP, with notes and recordings taken for further analysis. Analysis was conducted on the three common creative themes viewing virtualization as the mediator. Trends emerged demonstrating that asynchronous communication had a substantial influence on group creative processes. Conversely, virtual teams employing real-time communication found little influence on the creative process. Other anecdotal trends can be seen regarding motivation and social environment. This paper identifies key areas where virtualization influences the group creative process, and provides a base for future suggested research.

This thesis presents an Advanced Placement curriculum for the concentration section of the Drawing Portfolio. It is intended as a teaching tool to encourage and develop creative strategies related to idea generation and refinement based on creative problem solving, which is essential to the development of an effective concentration. One of the most difficult problems faced by Advanced Placement Studio Art students is idea generation for the artwork related to a central topic for the concentration section of their portfolios. This curriculum introduces lessons based on artist research, brainstorming, synectics, and SCAMPER techniques designed to foster creative idea generation for artwork development. It also gives students a tool with which to analyze the ideas generated based on specific criteria necessary to the concentration. This curriculum specifically encourages the creative process in students and provides teachers with a foundation with which to begin a unique and highly personal journey by the individual student.

Syftet med det här utvecklingsarbetet har varit att pröva olika metoder att arbeta med dansimprovisation på gymnasieskolans estetiska program dansinriktningen. Jag har upplevt att detofta har varit svårt i början för eleverna att släppa hämningar och krav och att våga utforskaegna rörelser i tid, rum och kraft. I det här utvecklingsarbetet prövades som metod tre olikauttryck: rörliga bilder, en text eller ett musikstycke. Därför var jag nyfiken på hur elevernaupplevde de olika estetiska inspirationskällorna och om någon kunde öka elevens motivationatt arbeta med dansimprovisation. Samtidigt ville jag knyta ihop några moment ur kursernascentrala innehåll med förhoppning om att eleverna skulle få en ökad förståelse för denskapande processen i dans. För att få en uppfattning av hur eleverna upplevde det härupplägget utvärderades arbetet genom egna observationer och intervjuer av eleverna.Resultatet visade att eleverna upplevde en ökad motivation att improvisera till rörliga bilderoch musik. Eleverna uppfattade även att de hade fått en bredare förståelse avdansimprovisation verktyg för att skapa dans när några moment ur kursernas centrala innehållsamverkade som en helhet. Samtliga elever upplevde arbetet med de olika metoderna som enpositiv erfarenhet. / The aim of this developing project has been to try different ways of inspiration when workingwith dance improvisation at the dance programme in upper secondary education. The sourcesI used in this project were moving pictures, a piece of music and a text. I was interested toexplore if the dance students experienced a greater inspiration from any particular source thatcould result in increased motivation to work with dance improvisation. I also wanted to linkrelevant parts of the purposes of each subjects from the curriculum of the dance programmehoping to bridge the gap between the practice of dance and dance theory and to see if thestudents gained a better understanding of the creative process in dance. The project was assessed through my observations and interviews of the students. The results showed that thestudents felt more motivated to improvise to moving pictures and to music. Students alsoperceived that they had received an increased understanding of dance improvisation as a toolfor creating dance when relevant contents of the different courses interacted as a whole. Allstudents experienced the work of the various methods as positive experience.

This thesis explores the creative processes of intercultural performance in an Asian context, through projects undertaken with Vietnam Opera Ballet Theatre, the national dance company in Hanoi. Background research to the study has enabled previously elusive research areas to be made available to English-language scholars and artists - namely, contemporary preservation of Vietnamese dance traditions and professional practice of Vietnamese dance in the đổi mới (open door policy) period. This contextual background highlights the importance of cultural specificity in intercultural performance practice, revealing insights into how and why artistic and aesthetic sensibilities shift when choreographic processes are transferred from an Australian to a Vietnamese setting. The study began with a premise of intercultural performance practice as an equitable sharing of ideas and has ended with the experience of intercultural collaboration as a transforming process, involving cultural translation to and by the local context - in this study through a process of Vietnamisation. Transformations are seen to occur via alteration of professional practices and the metamorphosis of meaning, metaphor and myth, providing substantially new readings of the original ideas. Importantly, the study points to the body as the central site of cultural difference, cultural commonalities and complex intercultural sensibilities. A dual methodology for the research combined artistic practice with theoretical reflection, resulting in a polyphonic text of written, visual and kinetic data. From the extant practice of the researcher/choreographer, a model of intercultural performance was devised which was refined as the two research projects of the pilot and case studies progressed. Reflective analysis of the model was undertaken through the framework of intercultural performance theories, parallel to the artistic practice. Throughout the research process, privileging the voices and bodies of the Vietnamese artists in both their practice and their perceptions of that practice have been fundamental to the outcomes of the study. This is the first in-depth study of contemporary professional dance practice in Vietnam and of intercultural performance practice between Australia and Vietnam.

This essay documents a year of exploring how to continue to be creative, experimental and intuitive within an art institution. It provides a context and thus academic shelter for a non-linear, experimental process of making drawings, sculpture and site-specific work. The essay has three layers; the contextual document, images which show the process of making, as well as a narrative written in experimental poetry which describes the embodied process of making through collaged journal writing. The images are interspersed through the essay, while the poetry provides an alternative narrative and is printed on the back pages of the essay. ‘Building’ is used as an active metaphor for the creative process, as well as buildings as sites for research and installation of adaptive sculptures. Building as a metaphor for unchanging narratives will be contrasted with artists whose work challenges the unitary nature of a functional building through their interventions. Using the body to make meaning is discussed in a feminist context, as an alternative this model to linear, rational thinking. This also questions and problematizes the heroic male artist body. Performing the making through a female body will be discussed and issues of privacy and proximity covered. A potential solution to these issues will be explored in using abstraction to create active meaning, thus implicating the body of the audience as well as the artist.

<p>Given the context of globalization and growing competition, we assist at a reduction of the product life cycle and at a rapid diffusion of creations and innovations. To respond to the fast changing customers’ demand and to reinforce their market position, firms shall design an effective creative process offering superior customer value and insuring their future in the long term.</p><p>First of all, after an explanation of the differences between creativity and innovation, the creative process of high-tech firms in terms of actors involved, resources allocation, leadership and management of creative people will be depicted. Secondly, the creative destruction process and some of the inherent obstacles and risks of the creative process will be addressed. Thirdly, the concepts of Technology Life Cycle (TLC) and Product Life Cycle (PLC) will be developed.</p><p>Within this thesis, our ideas are presented and justified through three methodologies: Literature Review, case study and interview. We mainly used the cases of Hewlett-Packard (HP) and France Telecom Orange (FTO) to backup our argumentation.</p><p>We conceptualized the creative process and we highlighted the connections between the creative process and the Product Life Cycle. With the help of two other small cases study (Nintendo and Apple), we emphasized the downward trend of high-tech products’ lifecycle in the long run. Ultimately, four practical recommendations are given to leaders from high-tech industries and directions to deeper research this topic are advised.</p>

Esta pesquisa propõe uma reflexão sobre a produção da imagem fotográfica e seus desdobramentos num processo artístico. Busca investigar a presença de procedimentos adotados por artistas que pretendem ampliar o conceito de imagem fixa, propondo alterações formais e conceituais com uso de materiais diversos. O texto apresenta análises sobre obras de artistas contemporâneos em relação com os procedimentos adotados no meu processo artístico. Desta maneira, instaura-se um campo de interação entre vários modos do fazer artístico. Durante a construção desta tese, foram identificados núcleos de análises que norteiam a organização do pensamento sobre minha conduta criadora, constituindo assim, categorias de ações e reflexões sobre imagens transitórias e as dinâmicas interativas entre o real e o imaginário nos procedimentos fotográficos. As operações poéticas, aqui apresentadas, envolvem experiências com uso de imagens fotográficas que retornam ao tipo de material ou situação que lhe deu origem, assim como o uso de materiais que se associam de maneira metafórica ou metonímica. Tais escolhas, por consequência, promovem alterações nas qualidades visuais das imagens produzidas, fator importante para discutir o “valor” da imagem no cotidiano e seu estado transitório. Assim, os desvios produzidos nos registros fotográficos foram fundamentais para ampliar o conceito da fotografia documental e da fotografia artística, discutido aqui, a partir de uma articulação prática e reflexiva das “marcas do visível”. / This research aims at a reflection about the production of the photographic image and its unfoldings in an artistic process. It tries to investigate the presence of procedures applied by artists who intend to enlarge the concept of steady image, proposing formal and conceptual changes with various materials. The text presents some analyses about works of contemporary artists in relation with the procedures applied in my artistic process. Hence, it is established a field of interaction among various kinds of art making. During the writing of this thesis, it was possible to identify nucleuses of analyses that guide the thought organization about creating conduct, constituting this way, categories of actions and reflections about transitory images and the interactive dynamics between what is real and what is imaginary in photographic procedures. The poetic operations, here presented, involve experiences with use of photographic images that return to the type of material or situation from which it originated, as well as the use of materials that are associated in a metaphoric way. Such choices, as a consequence, generate changes in the visual qualities of the images produced, an important factor to discuss the “value” of the image on a regular basis and its transitory state. Therefore, the deviations produced in the photographic registers were fundamental to enlarge the concept of the documental photography, discussed here, beginning from a practical and reflexive articulation of the “marks of visible”.

Esta pesquisa situa-se no campo das criações artísticas interdisciplinares, envolvendo as relações entre teatro e cinema. Seu objetivo é explorar as possibilidades de contribuição entre essas duas artes a fim de destacar possíveis intercâmbios de procedimentos criativos entre as diferenças de suas especificidades de linguagem. De um lado, há a colaboração da improvisação teatral como um dispositivo de composição de um roteiro de cinema. Do outro, há as metodologias do set de filmagem como um gatilho de criação cênica. Assim, intenciona-se a construção de uma escritura cênica a partir de improvisações. Esta propõe-se a não ser exclusivamente teatral e a ter um potencial cinematográfico. O corpus de análise desta investigação é a elaboração de um experimento cênico e de um curta-metragem híbridos, ambos gerados em um processo colaborativo. A metodologia de pesquisa dá-se em três etapas. Primeiramente o desenvolvimento será calcado no estudo das especificidades de ambas linguagens, nutrido por ideias de teóricos do campo das artes cênicas como Walter Benjamin, Patrice Pavis e Roland Barthes, assim como por teóricos do campo do cinema, tais como André Bazin, Cristian Metz e Susan Sontag. A segunda etapa, de caráter empírico, dará origem ao corpus de análise da pesquisa e será realizada no período de seis meses. Chamada de Experimento Interdisciplinar, a prática contou com o elenco de cinco atores e uma equipe de diretores convidados e contemplou a produção de um experimento cênico e de um curta-metragem. A terceira etapa apoia-se na análise do experimento interdisciplinar e de seus resultados. / This research is situated on the field of interdisciplinary artistical creations involving the relationship between theater and cinema. Its goal is to explore the possibilities of contribution between these two arts in order to highlight possible interchanges of creative procedures between the differences in their language specificities. On one side, there is the collaboration of theatrical improvisation as a composition device for a movie script. On the other side, there are the filming set methodologies as a scenic creation trigger. Therefore, a scenic scripture is intended to be built from improvisations. This is proposed not to be exclusively theatrical and to have a cinematographic potential. The body of analysis of this investigation is the elaboration of a hybrid scenic experiment and a short movie, both generated in a collaborative process. The research methodology is given in three stages. First the development will be centered in the study of both languages’ specificities, nurtured by ideas from theorists of the scenic arts field, such as Walter Benjamin, Patrice Pavis and Roland Barthes, as well as by theorists from the cinema field, such as André Bazin, Cristian Metz and Susan Sontag. The second stage, of empirical character, will give birth to the body of analysis of the research and will be performed in the period of six months. Named “Interdisciplinary Experiment”, the practice is supported by a casting of five actors and a team of guest directors and has contemplated the production of a scenic experiment and a short movie. The third stage leans on the analysis of the interdisciplinary experiment and its results.

A presente dissertação desenvolvida na área de poéticas visuais, linha de pesquisa em “contextos e processos de criação, inserção e documentação”, centra-se sobre o processo criativo de ações artísticas realizadas em âmbito urbano e inseridas no contexto cotidiano. Visando a prática de trabalhos próprios, este estudo se desenvolve a partir de ações realizadas no período de 2009-2011, nas cidades de Porto Alegre/ Brasil e Valência/Espanha. Esta produção é aqui analisada recorrendo a referenciais teóricos e práticos do campo da arte, problematizando cada proposição por variados conceitos. / The current dissertation developed in the area of visual poetics, line of research on “contexts and processes of creation, insertion and documentation”, focuses on the creative process of artistic actions undertaken in the urban context and inserted into everyday life. Aiming on practice of own works, this study develops from actions taken during the period of 2009-2011, at the cities of Porto Alegre/Brazil and Valencia/ Spain. This production is also analyzed using theoretical and practical references of the field of art, questioning each proposition on several concepts.

Essa dissertação examina questões relativas à ética nas relações construídas no convívio do processo de criação da prática teatral, a partir de observações colhidas durante os ensaios do espetáculo Primeiro Amor, do Grupo Neelic, de Porto Alegre (RS). O trabalho de campo, registrado em vídeo e acompanhado de diários de ensaio, cartas de intenção e questionários respondidos pelos atores, constituiu a base da reflexão sobre o processo de criação. A problematização aqui desenvolvida a partir do trabalho de campo é nutrida pelo pensamento de diferentes disciplinas, encontrando então suporte teórico em Mikhail Bakhtin, Emmanuel Levinás, Edgar Morin, Constantin Stanislavski, Jerzy Grotowski, Jean-François Lyotard, Jorge Dubatti, Roland Barthes e Spinoza. Considerando as relações da ética com a estética e a política em diversos aspectos, a análise dos encontros do Grupo permitiu destacar as diferentes camadas de relacionamento entre criadores e as interferências de umas sobre as outras; a necessidade hoje do artista enquanto criador-produtor cênico e, finalmente, a indissociabilidade entre as esferas individual, coletiva e social. / This master thesis examines issues relating to ethics in the relationships built within the socialization during the theatrical practice creation process, from observations taken during rehearsals of the spectacle Primeiro Amor, by Grupo Neelic , Porto Alegre (RS). The field work, recorded on video and accompanied by rehearsal journals, letters of intent and questionnaires answered by the actors, formed the basis of reflection about the creation process. The problematization here developed from field work is nourished by the thought of different disciplines, then finding theoretical support in Mikhail Bakhtin, Emmanuel Levinas, Edgar Morin, Constantin Stanislavski, Jerzy Grotowski, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Jorge Dubatti, Roland Barthes and Spinoza. Considering ethics in relation to aesthetics and politics in many ways, the analysis of Group meetings allowed to highlight the different layers of the relationship between creators and the interference of some over others; the need today of the artist as a scenic creator-producer and, finally, the inseparability between the individual, collective and social spheres.