#### Context

Artistic practice has become a painfully slow and friction-filled process. We rarely experience the entire process of ideating, working on, and completing a work. We might initiate numerous projects but seldomly finish them due to various obstacles and unforeseen shifts. The time we spend being creative pales in comparison to the time devoted to self-organization, applying for support, emails, cultivating our online and offline presence, promotion, networking, dealing with the bureaucratic labyrinth of freelancing. It takes days to craft concepts that sound as profound and world-changing as expected. We research for months before producing highly elaborated works that few beyond ourselves can comprehend, only to present them to an audience with an attention span of three seconds.

 

#### What

In this class we will prioritize superficiality, speed, and quantity over reflection, depth and quality.
This is a practical course with a total of 10 hours, in this timespan we will ideate, create, and disseminate finished work.
This short class aims to counter overthinking, self-doubt, boredom and getting stuck, while inviting you to embrace "creative vomiting", failure, and spontaneity.
Ten "good enough" works are better than a "potentially good" but half-baked one.
You are very welcome to work with your favorite media and tools, and ask me about anything related to: Real-time visual, Max MSP Jitter, Unity, Interaction, generative art, Music, DIY interfaces, composition, performance, dramaturgy.

#### The 12 Rules for...

Do not worry, we will not adhere to any set of rules from any conspiracy-spreading Canadian internet celebrity, but we will approach our work in a similar manner to memes: swiftly and roughly. Here are some guidelines:

1. Focus solely on essentials; there's no time for embellishments.
2. If you're unsure how to proceed, seek assistance from someone in the room. If no help is available, explore alternative methods.
3. Nothing is important.
4. Everything is potentially valuable.
5. Expect some useless results, but remain receptive to occasional flashes of brilliance.
6. Stay calm and keep doing something.
7. If a task takes longer than an hour, find a quicker approach.
8. Embrace improvisation.
9. Produce works that can be spread online; we won't prioritize physical output. It could be a video, slideshow, real-time stream, webpage, social media post, downloadable app, text, PDF, email, telegram channel, etc.
10. Employ irony whenever possible.
11. Upon completing a task, immediately commence a new one.
12. View limitations as valuable guiding principles.

To speed up the process, we'll utilize AI tools to generate texts, images, videos, code, and whatever else we need.

We will use MIRO to share and organize.

If you participated in my previous semester course, "Code and Representation (Pixel, Prophecies, and Propaganda)" and wish to continue your work, you are welcome to join.

Our schedule will look like this:
Day 1: i'll quickly present the idea of the course and then we'll immediately start brainstorming (we can work collectively, singularly or in groups)
Day 2: we'll turn the ideas we had in to finished entities (whatever they will be)
Day 3: last moment panic, documentation and presentation of the output. We will upload what we've done, publicly or privately.

 

Presence and work in class.