Creative Concepts Design Workshop at UCC, Ireland
UCC Ireland Creative Concepts Teaching Travelogue Part 1 has been released and is ready for viewing!
Have you ever dabbled in iMovie? If so, and if you’re somewhat geeky, you know that it’s way too fun to learn, and takes up way too much time!
I taught myself how to use iMovie in 2015 during a stint of jet lag after arriving in Hangzhou, China for a month-long teaching residency. Basically, I was awake in the middle of the night for two weeks straight, which afforded me the quiet time to learn.
…So, I’m happy to announce that this post contains one of my NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS
which was to finally finish a 2-part video travelogue of last year’s multi dimensional trip to Ireland. The main purpose of the trip was to deliver the “Creative Concepts” design workshop for the George Boole Library at University College Cork.
For both Part 1 and Part 2, Dublin recording artist, Stano generously allowed me free use of the music from three of his recent CDs. This made for a very interesting and integrated documentary project, which is, for lack of a better description, a collage experiment done in iMovie…stay tuned for a special post on a visit with Stano.
Part 1 documents the “Creative Concepts” workshop at UCC last May, and contains photos, footage and art works from that experience. It also re-visits my 2015 family trip to attend the Boole 200 Bicentenary Celebration.
So without further ado please click on images or links below to view Part 1 on YouTube…please subscribe and I’d love to have some feedback if you have time!
In 2015, the descendants of George Boole, which includes my extended family, were invited to the Boole 200 Bicentenary Celebration (1815-2015) at University College Cork, Ireland, where he was Professor of Mathematics. Known as the forefather of the Information Age, Boole, the son of a shoemaker, was largely self-taught.
“George Boole was a mystic genius, whose ideas have utterly transformed the world in which we live. Computers, information storage and retrieval systems, electronic circuits and almost the entire world of present-day technology depend vitally on the simple but ingenious mathematics he invented – Boolean Algebra.” -Desmond MacHale
During this 2015 trip I exhibited two art pieces and gave a lecture at the Boole Library. One of these works, “Circuit Board Thunderbird” was purchased for the library board room.
I returned in 2017 to deliver a 5 part workshop designed to help students and staff of varied levels and disciplines expand their perceptive ability and intuitive intelligence, hence the “Creative Concepts” Teaching Travelogue Movie:
The restoration of Boole’s home at 5 Grenville Place, sanctioned by Cork city councillors in December 2014, was one of the key projects in University College Cork’s “Boole 200” series of events. Prior to this, it was in a severely dilapidated condition, and without so much as a roof ! This building figures prominently at the end of the video.
…SO BE SURE TO WATCH IT ALL THE WAY THROUGH TO WITNESS A STUNNING TRANSFORMATION OF THIS PROPERTY, SIGNALING A NEW DAY FOR BOOLE’S LEGACY !
Click here to see the “Creative Concepts” Travelogue Video
“CREATIVE CONCEPTS” RATIONALE:
“Imagining something is the first step towards making it happen. Education of the imagination can happen by encouraging an expansive thought process through the free association of ideas, allowing for the maximum amount of non-structure and divergence to exist within the framework of a clear structure. Within this balanced paradigm mistakes can readily become opportunities, altering definitions of success and perfection.” -Alyssa Hinton
…CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ABOUT THE ACTUAL CREATIVE CONCEPTS WORKSHOP ON THE UCC WEBSITE! A Creative Concepts Workshop by Alyssa Hinton – George Boole’s Great-Great Granddaughter
…CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ABOUT THE ACTUAL CREATIVE CONCEPTS WORKSHOP ON THE UCC WEBSITE! The Creative Concepts – a free three-day design workshop in The Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork. 24th to 26th May, 2017
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