abstract: MOVE was a choreographic project that investigated content in conjunction with the creative process. The yearlong collaborative creative process utilized improvisational and compositional experiments to research the movement potential of the human body, as well as movement's ability to be an emotional catalyst. Multiple showings were held to receive feedback from a variety of viewers. Production elements were designed in conjunction with the development of the evening-length dance work. As a result of discussion and research, several process-revealing sections were created to provide clear relationships between pedestrian/daily functional movement and technical movement. Each section within MOVE addressed movement as an emotional catalyst, resulting in a variety of emotional textures. The sections were placed in a non-linear structure in order for the audience to have the space to create their own connections between concepts. Community was developed in rehearsal via touch/weight sharing, and translated to the performance of MOVE via a communal, instinctive approach to the performance of the work. Community was also created between the movers and the audience via the design of the performance space. The production elements all revolved around the human body, and offered different viewpoints into various body parts. The choreographer, designers, and movers all participated in the creation of the production elements, resulting in a clear understanding of MOVE by the entire community involved. The overall creation, presentation, and reflection of MOVE was a view into the choreographer's growth as a dance artist, and her values of people and movement. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.F.A. Dance 2013

abstract: This ethnographic research focuses on the specific creative processes of one dance-maker who worked collaboratively with seven dancers, a sound designer, a costume designer, and a narrative speaker. Together they created an evening-length dance work entitled "The Now Creature." Throughout the creative process, the dance-maker was interested in noticing attachments, finding freedom from these attachments, and being aware of how the work was affected by the choice to detach or remain attached to certain ideas. This interest stemmed from the dance-maker/researcher's interest in Buddhist philosophy and a system of decision-making she had been developing since childhood. The creative process for "The Now Creature" began with experiments in chance procedures as a method of non-attachment. After the first public showing of the piece, the process shifted to include intuition and aesthetic integration. "Embodied nowness," or the awareness of one's physical and mental sensations in the present moment, played an important role in rehearsals and in the overall process of letting go of attachments. All collaborators kept journals and were usually given specific prompts about which to write. The researcher/dance-maker also conducted one-on-one verbal interviews and group discussions with the collaborators. These data informed the development of the work presented on January 31-February 2 at Arizona State University, Findings from this research can be applied to any kind of creative process, or any life situation that includes decision-making. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.F.A. Dance 2014

Este trabalho discute o uso da entrevista nos estudos do processo de criação artística. Procura examinar em que medida a conversação com um artista pode contribuir na abordagem de sua obra e como pode ajudar a contar a história da instauração dessa obra. Para tanto, são analisados os trabalhos Vista de Ararit, Quintino e Vaga em campo de rejeito e são entrevistados seus respectivos autores, os artistas plásticos Anico Herskovits, Jailton Moreira e Maria Helena Bernardes. / This paper discusses the use of the interview in the studies of the artistic creative process. It tries to examine to wich extent the conversation with an artist can contribute to the approach to his/her work and how it can be helpful to describe the work’s instauration history. In order to do that, the works Vista de Ararit, Quintino and Vaga em campo de rejeito will be analyzed and their respective artists, Anico Herskovits, Jailton Moreira and Maria Helena Bernardes, are interviewed.

Orientador: Cassiano Sydow Quilici / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-17T01:13:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Lima_JoiceRodriguesde_M.pdf: 3838227 bytes, checksum: 91eab61b548ada8dfdb6c84bd84f56f8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: Esta pesquisa propôs maneiras de trabalhar com atores a partir de imagens fotográficas, abordando as necessidades implícitas ao ato de olhar a fotografia. Para tanto, cinco atrizes participaram da realização de procedimentos que envolveram a observação destas imagens e de situações cotidianas, como parte do treinamento do ator. A metodologia abrangeu também o estudo e a compreensão da obra da artista francesa Sophie Calle, no que diz respeito às suas fotografias e aos fatores relacionados a seus processos criativos. Dessa forma, uma série de procedimentos foram definidos e experimentados, no sentido de ampliar a percepção do ator no momento da observação. Com isso, foi possível constatar que o "olhar", no sentido de observar, proporciona a movimentação de afetos e memórias que participam da e colaboram com a criação do material de trabalho do ator. / Abstract: The goal of this research was to investigate the work method with actors from photographic images observation, when the intention is the theatrical creation from the actor perspective. For this, five actresses participated on the practical research implementation through the photographic images observation and everyday situations, as part of actor training. The methodology also covered the understanding of the French artist Sophie Calle job, with regard to her photos and factors related to her creative processes. Thus, a series of procedures have been defined and tested in order to broaden the perception of the actor at the time of observation. So, it was established that the "look" (in order to observe) provides the handling of feelings and memories that participate in the material creation of the actor's work and collaborate with it. / Mestrado / Mestre em Artes

Este trabalho analisa as relações entre os processos de criação nas áreas da Joalheria e da Arquitetura. Desde o esboço, passando pelos desenhos, croquis, maquetes e até as modernas formas de representação computacional, o processo criativo deve levar em conta sempre fatores como expressão de uma visão particular do mundo e referências e condições estéticas, práticas e históricas. Leva-se em conta o caso do arquiteto Frank Gehry, que desenvolveu projetos de renome em ambas as áreas. Observa-se a trajetória dessas áreas, desde seus primórdios, e as soluções encontradas pelo homem, através do tempo, para a interferência nos objetos e nos espaços, a fim de deixar sua marca e proporcionar progressos na vida humana. Por fim, detalham-se as novas tecnologias empregadas nas criações e representações de formas complexas, com destaque para os softwares em 3D, que propiciam a evolução dos projetos com melhora em custos e prazos nos projetos multimilionários na atualidade. / This research presents the relations among the many process of creation in the jewellery and architecture areas. Starting with the outline, passing on the drawings, sketches and getting through the modern ways of computer representation, the creative process must consider the reasons like a private vision of the world, historical references, esthetic conditions and practices. Frank Gehry developed renowned projects in both areas. The trajetory of these areas can be observed since their beginning. The solutions found by the human being through the time, for the interference in the objects and in many places in order to mark and propose every kind of progress for human lives. Lastly, this research details the new tecnologies which were used in creations and in the complex ways of representation, like the 3D softwares, which range the evolution of the projects, together with the improvement in costs and time for the present multimillionaire projects.

O sistema dos Viewpoints é o ponto de partida para uma investigação teórico-prática que transita por entre a bibliografia desenvolvida por Anne Bogart e a experiência prática em sala de ensaio. O objetivo principal é apontar algumas pistas para o trabalho do ator a partir de três recortes: o mapeamento inicial do sistema, a descrição das práticas realizadas em sala de ensaio e, ainda, a exploração do conceito de escuta-ação enquanto estratégia metodológica para a criação atoral. Os Viewpoints são compreendidos como um dispositivo a ser difundido, e a metodologia procurou friccionar o procedimento em questão com alguns dos temas presentes na cena contemporânea, como a performatividade e o desempenho espetacular. A análise do papel determinante da escuta-ação, na hipótese original da pesquisa, afirma ser a dramaturgia do ator o espaço da experiência, uma atividade permanentemente provisória, propositadamente lacunar e, em suma, ensaística, vista aqui a partir da perspectiva de Jorge Bondía. / The Viewpoints System is the starting point for a theoretical-practical investigation that includes the bibliography developed by Anne Bogart and the practical experience in rehearsals. The main objective of this study is to indicate some signs to the actor\'s work through three approaches: the initial mapping of the system, the description of practices applied in rehearsals, and the exploration of the listeningaction (escuta-ação) concept as a methodological strategy for acting creation. The Viewpoints are understood as a device yet to be disseminated, and the methodology has sought to relate this procedure with some subjects present in the contemporary scene, such as performativity and perfomative performance. The analysis of listenact\'s determinant role, according to the original hypothesis of this research, sustains that the dramaturgy of the actor is the experiencing space, a permanent provisional activity, purposely empty, and essentially essayistic, viewed here from Jorge Bondía\'s perspective.

Orientador: Silvio Ferraz Mello Filho / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-24T21:08:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ficagna_AlexandreRemuzzi_D.pdf: 38467832 bytes, checksum: 6f3c2941f6e40b7de0a08533fd45c056 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: Esta tese tem por objeto de estudo a composição assistida por imagens visuais na música instrumental. Nela abordamos o processo composicional em que a visualidade da partitura é um importante espaço de manipulação. Por partitura entendemos aqui a superfície de registro tradicionalmente tomada como espaço de manipulação de imagens sonoras. Para este estudo tomamos por referência a noção de percepção intermodal para pensar a relação de imagens sonoras com imagens visuais e táteis como ferramenta para a composição musical. Nosso ponto de partida é o trabalho dos compositores Iannis Xenakis e Salvatore Sciarrino, compreendidos lado ao trabalho dos artistas visuais Paul Klee e Wassily Kandinsky. De Klee e Kandinsky, destacamos o trabalho com a temporalidade dos elementos visuais através da realização de 'leituras pictóricas' de elementos e conceitos musicais; de Sciarrino, a presença da visualidade na composição musical, fator por ele atribuído à influência da notação musical; e de Xenakis, a elaboração de um sistema visual a partir da equivalência entre elementos visuais e sonoros, manipulando imagens visuais como se fossem imagens sonoras. Neste processo o trabalho de outros compositores também serviu como referência. A pesquisa sobre o processo criativo de compositores que mencionam imagens visuais em seus relatos composicionais revela duas abordagens: a manipulação de imagens visuais através de imagens sonoras, observada quando a influência da visualidade não implica a manipulação direta de imagens visuais, mas sim uma 'leitura musical' de tais imagens; a manipulação de imagens sonoras através de imagens visuais, abordagem relacionada ao trabalho de Sciarrino e Xenakis. Além dos compositores relacionados à segunda abordagem há os autores que propõem visualizações para modelos sonoros, como Lachenmann, Thoressen e Blackburn: a análise de suas proposições fornece subsídios à elaboração de visualizações próprias, bem como sugere a criação não só a partir da visualidade, mas com a visualidade. A tese está apresentada em dois momentos, um compreendendo o estudo conceitual da relação entre imagens visuais e composição musical, e outro, de cunho prático, em que procurou-se uma aplicação do pensamento composicional a partir de imagens. No que diz respeito ao segundo momento, apresentamos nesta tese as composições Estudo (quarteto de clarinetes), Escondido num ponto (flauta, sax alto, cello e piano) e Enrascada (clarinete, fagote e piano). A partir delas destacamos a influência recíproca dos espaços de manipulação (visualizações através de desenhos e escrita na partitura), aqui chamada de intermodulação, processo constatado durante a composição de Estudo (em que o esboço visual foi alterado na etapa da escrita) e explorado na composição de Escondido num ponto (com desenho e escrita se influenciando passo a passo). A composição de Enrascada traz reflexões sobre as particularidades de cada espaço de manipulação em relação ao trabalho com determinadas imagens sonoras. Conclui-se que a questão da influência recíproca entre imagens visuais e sonoras (e seus espaços de manipulação) permite trazer ao ato da composição a potência de domínios táteis e visuais, sem que isto implique em transposições meramente descritivas, mas sim na proliferação de possibilidades / Abstract: The objective of this research is to study the musical composition aided by visual images in instrumental music. The visuality of musical score is seen as a relevant manipulation space. By musical score we mean the recording surface commonly used as a manipulation space for sonic images. A relevant notion for this study is intermodal perception, which allows us to think the relation between sonic images and visual and haptic images as a tool for musical composition. Important composers for this study are Iannis Xenakis and Salvatore Sciarrino, as well the visual artists Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. From Klee and Kandinsky we highlight the work with temporal aspects of visual elements by means of 'pictorial reading' of musical concepts and elements; from Sciarrino, the presence of visuality in musical composition due to the use of musical notation in western music tradition; and from Xenakis, the elaboration of a visual system through the equivalence between visual and sonic images, a system in which visual images are worked as sonic ones. Works from other composers became important during the research process. We highlight two approaches in the composition process of composers who mention visual images in their compositional texts and interviews: the visual images manipulation through sonic images, in cases in which there is no direct visual image manipulation, but a 'musical reading' of them; the sonic images manipulation through visual images, an approach related to Sciarrino's and Xenakis' works. Besides the composers related to the second approach there are authors such as Lachenmann, Thoressen and Blackburn, who propose visualizations for sonic models: the analysis of their proposals allows us to think about custom visualizations. This thesis can be seen as having two main parts: one with the conceptual study of the relation between visual images and musical composition, and the other, an applied study of the compositional thinking aided by visual images. In this last part we present the compositions Estudo (clarinet quartet), Escondido num ponto (flute, alto sax, cello and piano) and Enrascada (clarinet, bassoon and piano). From them we highlight the reciprocal influence of the manipulation spaces (visualizations through drawings and musical writing), called intermodulation, a process noticed during the writing of Estudo (in which the visual sketch was altered in the musical writing stage) and explored on the composition of Escondido num ponto (with drawing and writing influencing each other step by step). The composition of Enrascada brings about reflections on the particularities of each manipulation space in relation to the work with certain sonic images. This research concludes that the issue of the reciprocal influence between visual and sonic images (and their manipulation spaces) makes it possible to bring to the act of composition the potency of the haptic and visual domains, without this meaning merely descriptive transpositions but actually a proliferation of possibilities / Doutorado / Processos Criativos / Doutor em Música

(in English) The thesis explores decision making in creative artistic process in adults. The aim of this study is to determine what and how the adults reflect during an art activity and its aftermath, as well as what other phenomena occur in the creative process. The theoretical part is divided into four parts. The first section deals with decision making - the terminology and the three theories of intuitive decision making. The second part presents basic knowledge about creativity. The third part deals with the creative process and its models. The fourth one describes two methods used in the research. The empirical part consists of qualitative and quantitative research. The qualitative research was conducted using a semi-structured interview with 14 adults, who drew on stimulus matrix - scribbling, which was created for this purpose. The objective of the qualitative research was to map the decision making in the given activity. The purpose of the quantitative research was to compare the used scribbling method with the Torrance Figural Test of Creative Thinking. The results of both surveys are described in detail and discussed with the available literature. The conclusion of the thesis offers recommendations on the use of the collected data and possible further research on this topic. Klíčová slova...

<p>Previous research has identified creativity goals and process goals as two contextual interventions for enhancing creativity in the workplace. Whereas creativity goals direct attention and effort toward outcomes that are both novel and useful, process goals direct attention and effort toward the creative process – behaviors and cognitions intended to enhance creative outcomes. The current research draws from past research and theory on goals and intrinsic motivation to explain how creativity goals and process goals influence creative performance, and perhaps more importantly, <i>why</i>. Specifically, I suggest that creativity goals have a direct, positive relationship with creative performance; however, process goals have an indirect, positive relationship with creative performance through creative process engagement. Additionally, specificity has the ability to focus attention on relevant processes and outcomes within the creativity criterion space. While specific creativity goals are predicted to direct attention toward desirable solutions without thwarting needs for autonomy, specific (i.e., structured) process goals may thwart autonomy perceptions, resulting in lower levels of intrinsic motivation, and ultimately creative performance. The hypotheses proposed were examined in a sample of 560 undergraduate students utilizing a 3 (creativity goals: specific, general, and no goal) x 3 (process goals: structured, semi-structured, and no goals) between-subjects experimental design. Results revealed creativity goals, particularly specific creativity goals, have a direct positive influence on creative performance. Process goals have an indirect positive relationship on creative performance through creative process engagement. Moreover, process goals have a negative impact on perceptions of autonomy, which in turn negatively impacts creative performance by reducing intrinsic motivation. The specific creativity goal had the strongest effects and appears to be an effective way to enhance both creative process engagement and creative performance. Taken together, these findings suggest that goals are a tenable means of enhancing creative performance; however, care should be taken to reduce adverse consequences for autonomy perceptions. </p>

Prominent definitions and theories of 'Creativity' provide core data for themes that frame the Creative Process Assessment Matrix (CPAM). Its framework is based on Wallas' stages of the creative process and the P theory (Person, thinking Process, Press/Persuasion and Product). The CPAM's structure and content was derived from current, reliable and valid research. Issues relating to assessment procedures, as well as psychological factors (blockers and stimulators) gave rise to the Creative Assessment Test Questionnaire (CATQ#4), containing questions that document creative assessment prerequisites. Recognized creativity tests (Word-Association, Instances and TCT-DP) were evaluated to determine whether they successfully address and test for relevant creative process criteria. Results indicated that all three tests only addressed a minority of CPAM's 60-point criteria. CPAM offers understanding of the environmental impact and influence on creativity, and renders it measurable. Finally, the CPAM measures the setting, sensory stimulation and what postulates the initial spark of creativity. / Psychology of Education / M. Ed. (Psychology of Education)