Off-grid creativity : time, medium, space and memory.

• Main Author: Lim, Seng Hee.
• Other Authors: Hong Li Tsing Karen
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Communication::Visual communication
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/52607
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

“Off-grid Creativity” is a personal project about the impact of memory, time, space and medium on our creative thinking, as it hopes to create awareness of attaining creativity balance with the help of these elements and cultivation of individualistic voice with online inspirations as supplement. It was initiated with intensive self-reflection by reflecting upon issues that have high-level of importance and personal interest. There was a realization of our memory being rapidly evolved in this digital age due to our technological connected society and environment. Everyone is constantly “online” and connected to the Internet and online media such as social media. New information can be shared with such ease over the Internet and users are constantly consuming them consciously and unconsciously. Do these technologies have any effect on their memory and creative mind? Does constantly consuming shared information from the Internet hurt their sense of creativity via constantly absorbing common information that has been circulating in the cyber world? Social media had become such a common platform and online environment for anybody with common personalities to participate. Can this phenomenon cause harm to individual identity and causing one to lose his or her uniqueness? These are questions are constantly circulating in the brainstorming process and will spark a series of research and investigation. In chorus, from a personal perspective and contextual research, elements such as time, memory, medium and space continue to play a big part in the process of creative thinking. This project will take on a personal approach by sharing personal thoughts and experiences alongside research and investigation and hope to gain awareness of the discussed issues.