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...small but worthy gallery, Oni was founded in 1998 and recently moved next door and five floors up from its original site. Currently showing is "Formula," an exhibition of New York-based artists rounded up by one of Oni's original founders, Cheyney Thompson, who migrated there recently. Thompson's "1839," a series of acrylic paintings of woodbeam-and-brick cross-sections on transparent organza, exposes infrastructural delicacy. Also with Nathan Carter, Daniel Lefcourt, Tim Seiber and Bettina Sellman, whose installation, "the absence of dreaming," encases mute forms in satin...
...Through Dec. 20: "Formula" (N.Y.-based artists...
...certainly want people listening, so you have to keep that in mind without compromising your own integrity. You definitely want to play what you love, and hopefully, if you're lucky, other people will like what you're playing and everything works out. I think I've found that formula well enough to have some success...
...more positive result was generated by researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who decided to challenge an industry defined by creativity--advertising. The researchers noticed that a large minority of prize-winning ads followed a simple formula: find the product's characteristic that is its selling point, and use images to emphasize that characteristic in the ad. A similar contest found that the ads the researchers' computers produced were generally as good as those of professional ad agencies, while they far surpassed the efforts of human amateurs. For instance, while a human suggested a picture of the walls...
...examples describe true creativity? If creativity means creation in a vacuum, then no. However, very little human creativity may come out of a vacuum. The most powerful literature does not always deal with subjects never considered before, but often presents common experiences in a slightly different light. If a formula can make you look creative, maybe originality is more formulaic than the Romantic ideal of the inspired genius would imply--maybe the interactions of neurons and of transistors aren't that far apart. Literary creativity may be just the first in a number of skills future computers will acquire that...