Creative Process

My Creative Process

This project has evolved heavily over the course of CPSA250. More than anything, I have learned to avoid the sunk cost fallacy. At many different times through this process, I heard myself thinking, "I've come this far, I should just stick to it." Whether the thought was about a video segment, a specific television, or a circuit diagram, I found that allowing myself to make changes always improved the final result. Even the core message of my project changed heavily between my initial proposal and now, from being about the beauty of technology to the more politically oriented theme which it has now. In this way, the unit we did on "killing our darlings" was probably one of the most influential concepts on my process (Dietz). I would say that learning this concept had the greatest positive effect on my final project of any one topic.

Although I did do a lot of research on the technical component of this project, a lot of my knowledge on the soldering and modification preceded my research. The information I gathered throughout my reading and archive-visiting primarily concerned the thematic presentation and ideological framework of my installation. My visits to the Paik Archive in particular helped me flesh out the concept of television-interaction as opposing the mainstream use of television as a tool to control.

Dietz, Lynda. “What It Really Means to Kill Your Darlings. It may be the release of the burden you didn’t know you were carrying.” The Writing Cooperative. Accessed 13 February, 2021. www.writingcooperative.com/what-it-really-means-to-kill-your-darlings-ab364e312eea