Yes, one can see your point from our discussion, which is going in
many directions at once, with many wonderful ideas emerging from all
over the world.
About your point of precise descriptions:
What I am very much interested in, are more precise descriptions of
the concepts of "invention", "innovation", "creativity"including the
concepts of "work" and "authorship" in relation
to this different fields.
Roger,
"Leonardo" has been very good about keeping glossaries. Could this
discussion be a way to establish _contextual_ definitions/descriptions
of these terms? If so, what would be a plan of action?
Maybe there is already something in place as a starting point.
Best,
Robert
On 3/3/09, roger malina <rmalina@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> From: "Schmidt Barbara U." <Barbara.SCHMIDT@media.lbg.ac.at>
> To: <yasmin_discussions@estia.media.uoa.gr>
> Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:29:47 +0100
> Subject: Antw: [Yasmin_discussions] artist as inventors
> Dear Yasminers,
>
> while working on the "Artists as Inventors - Inventors as
> Artists" book together with Dieter Daniels I sometimes had a
> feeling like walking on quicksand: Discussing "art" in relation to
> "invention" strikes so many different fields of knowledge (fine
> arts, design, technology, law, industry for instance) and along with
> this different systems of values, practices, different concepts of
> "work", "authorship", "creativity" and so forth.
>
> Facing this plurality is important though, as the discourses of media
> art on the one hand and neo liberal discourses of creativity on the
> other hand enforce the opening of boundaries, the linking of different
> social systems.
>
> Thus, Simón Pérez' emphasis on the need to define the categories we
> are discussing is very important. But as the comments on this pointed
> out: There are not "right" and "wrong" definitions" as they
> always depend on the fields of knowledge we are referring to.
>
> What I am very much interested in, are more precise descriptions of
> the concepts of "invention", "innovation", "creativity"
> including the concepts of "work" and "authorship" in relation
> to this different fields. Only If we know about the given differences
> - even contradictions -, about the given values and interests we can
> figure out about "beneficial partnerships" (Gavin Arth). As the
> Yasminers represent so many different professional and cultural
> backgrounds, this should be a great opportunity to achieve valuable
> results.
>
> Very best,
> Barbara
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