Creative Process Annotated Bibliography

Fall 2019 • Carla Gannis • Mondays and Wednesdays • 4:30 – 6:20pm • 370J Rm 312

Working in groups of three, you will research, analyze, evaluate, and communicate the research & design processes of a creator from a discipline of your team’s choice. The final form of this research project will be an annotated bibliography and video documentary of 1 to 3 minutes in length.

Teams: Jason Lee - Debbie - Daniel : Kyle Cooper Tasmia - Ahmed - Michael : James Cameron Mike - Mariam - Dan : Federico Fellini Maria - Micah - Brien : Hayao Miyazaki Phoebe - Yuming - Peiyan : Cao Fei Emily - Gina - Leah : Hayao Miyazaki Kaitlyn - Kat - Jason : Russo Brothers

Possible Choices (but not limited to):

• Sarah Blakely (Spanx)

• Richard Branson

• Yayoi Kusama

• John Cage

• Kyle Cooper

• Samuel R Delany

• Thomas Edison

• Cao Fei

• Elon Musk

• Octavia Butler

• Marge Piercy

• Albert Einstein

• Leonardo Da Vinci

• Charles Darwin

• Walt Disney

• Ai Weiwei

• Jordan Peele

• Zaha Hadid

• Charles & Ray Eames

• Federico Fellini

• Shirin Neshat

• Henry Ford (Ford Motor Company)

• Benjamin Franklin

• Art Fry (Post-It Note)

• Neal Stephenson

• Bill Gates

• Ambarish Mitra

• Juanjo Guarnido

• Alfred Hitchcock

• Will Wright

• Jonathan Ive

• Frida Kahlo

• Hideo Kojima

• Steve Jobs

• Sal Khan (Khan Academy)

• Stephen King

• Keita Takahashi

• Paul Klee

• David Lynch

• Hayao Miyazaki

• Christopher Nolan

• Gordon Parks

• Philippe Petit

• Steve Jobs

• J.K. Rawlings

• Robert Rodriguez

• Mika Rottenberg

• Paula Scher

• Twyla Tharp

The key to your research is a proliferation of references on your subject, particularly interviews, sketchbooks, notebooks, and/or journals or other reflective writing which can give your team insights into the research and design processes of your subject.

Annotated Bibliography

You will write an annotated bibliography as a team. I recommend using google docs to collaboratively write. The bare minimum of sources is five.

Using Purdue OWL Annotated Bibliography Guidelines, summarize, assess, and reflect.

• The Wikipedia Disclaimer: Nowadays, wikipedia is often the starting point for research – it’s quick, easy, and provides an acceptable overview of many subjects. However, for serious, sustained research Wikipedia should not be relied upon as a primary source. Use Wikipedia to familiarize yourself with your subject and to locate other sources for further research.

You can access NYU’s central library here: http://library.nyu.edu/

You can access NYU Tandon’s Bern Dibner Library here: http://library.poly.edu/

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY EXAMPLE: Shuai Wang https://docs.google.com/document/d/11QfqI6VSOGYUzZJGimz_H_Mcjvdk_j5i2400iLI82hM/edit

Creative Process Video Documentary

Create a video documenting the creative process of your chosen creator. This is not a “documentary” in the traditional sense, this is a video that both documents your chosen creator’s process, and is also an experimental video work in and of itself. This is not about telling the story of how they came to be an artist, designer, or creative technologist; this is about your team telling the story of their process, without a linear narrative.

Your team’s video documentary must be 1 to 3 minutes long and be executed with the utmost care and craftsmanship. Carefully consider such filmic aspects as editing, montage, visual rhythm, supplemental graphics and titles, audio score, storytelling, tone, and point of view

The process documentary will reveal:

• the discoveries your team made about your subject, and, more specifically how these discoveries will inform or have informed both of your own creative processes, etc.

VIDEO EXAMPLE: Van Gogh Project - Siqi Zhou and Camilla Padgitt-Coles https://camillapc.tumblr.com/post/175971287571/van-gogh-project-final-video-w-siqi-zhou