Creating Experiences Lessons Learned from Being a Performance Artist.
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Creating Experiences
Lessons Learned from Being a Performance
Artist
It’s All About Me
Now: Leader of Learning Technology at Nielsen
Then: Leader of 11-person Performance Art Troupe called Abstractjam
The sole purpose of performance art is to create an experience that changes your mindset by breaking down barriers of
traditional media.
Experience based learning allows the learner to create their own mindset from experiences, thereby breaking down the
barriers of formal learning.
Performance Art Timeline
15,000 BC Between WW1 and WW2 1950s-70s 1980s–90s Now
Caves of Lascaux
Minstrels, circuses, royal pageantry,
cabarets etc.
Dada, Surrealism, Bauhaus
Fluxus and Happenings
Abstractjam
Performance Art
Retrospectives in Museums
What I Learned
Leave room for multiple meanings and for the
unknown
Break experiences into the smallest
engagement possible
Hack the tools
Expand beyond expected boundaries
Invite people to share in the story
Involve people in taking action
Connect ideas to symbols that you can
identify
Question assumptionsCreate tension based on people's beliefs and expectations
Tell a compelling story that you or your audience have a personal stake in
Find the contradiction in normal reality and
exaggerate it
Tools I Wish I Had Then
BlogsWikisQR CodesSkypeTwitterFacebookRaspberry PiVinePortable projectorsPrezi
TextingGPS and MapsExperience APISurvey MonkeyMail ChimpEvernotePinterestSmart Phone Camera
Each one of these tools has its own ideal purpose and its own limitations. If you expand the purpose and push on the limitations you will find opportunities to create unique experiences.
This is a paper sculpture template. It has the unique property that it can be sent electronically as a flat image but it can be used to create an object in real space.
The QR Code allows someone who is looking at an object in real space to connect with an online resource.
Possibilities
Stick the handle of a hair dryer into the handle of an iron. Hold it together with clothes hanger wire.
Now think to yourself, what could this device do if it could do anything I want? What would be the inputs and what would be the outputs? How would it be used? How would you know it was successful? What limitations would you want to put on it?
Possibilities
Adam is also a cartoonist, a philosopher and a father and lives in Fairfield Connecticut with his wife and three sons.
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