Independant pieces, trivias & other fleeting thoughts
This section is reserved for a collection of brief notes that do not warrant full essays. These are observations drawn from reading across disciplines, connections between ideas, useful fragments or simply things worth recording. The entries are short and might possess some value for polymaths in academia.
Who knows which thought or fact we encounter, ends up changing the course of our lives. If there's a diamond in the dust I've missed, please shoot an email to inform me.
One.
In 1945, Albert Einstein proposed a concept, what he had long practiced, called '
Combinatory Play'. It was the deliberate interleaving of disparate pursuits, physics and violin, abstraction and sound, each sharpening the other towards insight. Typical specifics from his life include, alternating intense physics work with playing the violin to catalyze breakthroughs like the theory of relativity. Creativity, he understood, rarely emerges ex-nihilo. It is recombination, the reassembly of what exists into configurations not yet seen.
This often paralyzes the norm, i.e., if nothing is truly original, why contribute to the cacophony? But the thriving creator knows otherwise. Someone, somewhere, waits not for novelty alone but for your particular synthesis, your angle of refraction on light which is already familiar. They want to know your narratives and your perspective. The value lies not in unprecedented invention but in the integrity of perspective, the honesty of articulation.
It might be prudent, then, to be that creator.
The Einstein Fellowship
Two.
Here is an attempt to address the '
Creative Coding'. Creative coding transforms computer code from functional tool into expressive medium, detaching it from problem-solving to redefine it as artistic instrument. Through exploration and iteration rather than predetermined blueprints, creative coders discover rather than construct, engaging in what amounts to sketching with algorithms.
This discipline occupies the vital junction of arts and sciences, where practitioners investigate how emerging technologies shape artistic practice and future aesthetics. As humanity begins its long discourse with machines, creative coding represents one crucial conversation among many - a dialogue that actively shapes the art yet to come.
Innovation is rarely conjured. More often it is recognised, assembled from what was already there, waiting for someone patient enough to look across the room. Cheers to the gritty misfits, the brave innovators!
The Processing Foundation Fellowship
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