Jean Cocteau on Art, Poetry & Creativity

This weekend, Anthology Archives’ Essential Cinema Repertory series screens, featuring works by French author, artist, and filmmaker Jean Cocteau. During Cocteau’s 50-year career, he became a leader of the avant-garde, tackling the subject of the artist’s life as a solitary existence in films like Orphée and more. Cocteau has written extensively about what it means […]

How human creativity plays a role in AI

GUEST: Is there a more ambivalent word in English than “artificial”? Some artificial things are clearly beneficial, such as artificial organs, artificial insemination as a fertility treatment, and artificial sweeteners as an alternative to sugar for weight and diabetes control. But in other contexts, “artificial” can have a negative connotation. Artificial people. Artificial ingredients. Artificial […]

CIA consolidates assets, expertise & ‘creativity’ against ‘North Korea target’

The CIA has created a dedicated unit to monitor Pyongyang’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs amid reignited fears that North Korea’s sixth nuke test is imminent, and claims that the agency was planning a biochem attack against Kim Jong-un. Read more “The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has established a Korea Mission Center to harness the […]

Game Thinking wants to help product designers unlock their creativity

Amy Jo Kim is a famous game designer who helped fashion some wondrously creative titles such as The Sims, Rock Band, and Covet Fashion. And now she is extracting what she calls “Game Thinking” from the process of making games and she’s applying it to other kinds of product design. In years past, a superficial […]

The art of algorithms: How automation is affecting creativity

ANALYSIS: “Drawing on your phone or computer can be slow and difficult — so we created AutoDraw, a new web-based tool that pairs machine learning with drawings created by talented artists to help you draw,” wrote Google Creative Lab’s “creative technologist,” Dan Motzenbecker, earlier this week. AutoDraw is one of Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) experiments, working across platforms to […]

What to Do When You’re Out of Ideas

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