Published 4/2024
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920x1080 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz
Language: English | Size: 2.59 GB | Duration: 1h 51m

Learn from a professional composer and professor how to make creativity more effortless
What you'll learn
To engage with their own creative practice
To reflect on their creative practice over time
To communicate artistic concepts in both creative and written form
To develop their artistic practice through individual projects
To articulate responses to readings through low-stakes writing assignments
Requirements
None
Description
In American society, we spend more hours working than any other activity. We live in a culture that links productivity to self-worth, work to meaning, and pressures us to embrace "the grind" over healthy limits. Cultivating creativity and examining the personal significance of work are some of the most relevant issues in modern life.Creative thinking in work is highly prized, yet there is no clear method for developing creativity itself. In this course, we examine the roots of your creativity and give you short exercises to free up your creative flow. In this course, we will engage with numerous writers and theories on creativity, work, productivity, and how you relate to them. Students will explore these issues through short creative exercises and written reflections.Dr. Chaz Underriner is a tenured professor of Digital Arts at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida. He has written original courses on Creativity, the History and Aesthetics of Japanese Animation, Advanced Seminars for Digital Artists, Music Composition, Audio Production, and Scoring for Multimedia. Chaz is a composer, transmedia artist, author, and performer and engages with all of his artistic practices to inform his teaching. Chaz's writing has been published in academic journals in Cambridge University Press (Organised Sound) and MIT Press (Leonardo Music Journal). Chaz has given presentations at universities around the world including as Soeul National University (Korea), Tamagawa University (Japan), the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts (Czech), the University of Texas (USA), Kunstuniversität Graz (Austria), the Young Composer's Academy (Russia), at the Nasher Sculpture Center (USA), and the Ostrava Composer's Institute (Czech). Chaz was a Fulbright scholar to Vienna for an artist residency at the MuseumsQuartier (Austria). His work is commissioned and presented by ensembles and venues nationally and internationally, especially in the UK, the Netherlands, Czech, and Austria.
Overview
Section 1: what is creativity?
Lecture 1 intro
Lecture 2 creativity as flow
Section 2: understand yourself
Lecture 3 you are not a genius
Lecture 4 laziness does not exist
Lecture 5 you are really really small
Section 3: creativity and work
Lecture 6 creativity in your career
Lecture 7 time management
Section 4: dump your brain
Lecture 8 brain dump
Lecture 9 reflection
Anyone interested in developing their creativity,Anyone intersted in engaging intentionally with themselves about their creative process and thinking,Artists, programmers, musicians, students, learners of all ages. Anyone that uses creativity in their life or career,Anyone interested in engaging with the intersection of creativity and their work
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