M.E. Baird has a background in music, art, design, and architecture, including art direction for film, television, and digital media. His multidisciplinary approach to creativity has given him a unique set of lenses and skill bases for examining creativity and expression.
For two decades parallel to his music and art practice, M.E. Baird held sessional academic and teaching and creative scholar roles across art, design and architecture at various art and design schools and universities in New South Wales and Victoria. These include RMIT, University, UNSW-COFA, UNSW-Built Environment Department, Sydney University, and Deakin University. He has won several awards for teaching excellence. As an academic, he specifically looked into creative philosophy, memory and creative processes across various art forms, including art, design, architecture, film, music and literature.
Although no longer teaching or undertaking academic work, M.E. Baird has delivered the following talks and workshops at gatherings, art schools, galleries, and festivals, including the Byron Writers Festival, 2018.
WHAT I KNOW ABOUT CREATIVITY, IDEAS AND PROCESS.
M.E. Baird draws upon his broad creative practice in music and art, historical examples and academic experience to discuss what IS a conceptual idea and the process of turning a creative impulse or gesture into something with authenticity and substance. The talk is delivered in four parts, roughly 30 minutes each.
Pt.1 - What is a creative idea?
Pt.2 - Seeking Substance (ideas first)
Pt.3 - Generating Ideas and Process
Pt.4 - Threats to Creativity and How to Overcome Creative Blockage.
THE ART OF LISTENING
This is a fun and unique workshop where the visual senses, the mind and the ears collide in an immersive session of drawing and mark-making in response to specific music pieces. and prompts. It requires absolutely no artistic skills at all, just an open mind. It's enjoyable, even powerful, for it can open up the intuitive thinking process, tackle creative blockage and take your ideas to new and far more interesting places. (duration 2-3 hrs)
DUALITY, ABSENCE & MEMORY
M.E. Baird discusses what lies behind his art and music.
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