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Cross Pollination
Our examples for cross pollination are the disciplines of Book Making, WWW Publication, Movie Making, DVD Publication.
Students within a workshop environment discover the motivation to fill their individual needs. Action directed learning imbeds skills necessary to the process.
When a student studies camera arts they are also learning editing. When they are studying editing they learn what is needed from the camera. The cross-pollination is necessary to achieve a comprehensive grasp of the one function. A camera person who has editing experience, will never shoot un-editable footage.
A director who can act, and an actor who has directed will seek the commonality of shared experience to succeed in the communication necessary for function. These examples of cross pollination are a starting point for our voyage into the uncharted sea. This voyage has as it's goal, obtaining a profound point of view. We call this, our Keystone of Perception.
Transfluence
Transfluent - Flowing or running across or through; as, a transfluent stream. I coin the word Transfluence to mean a successful state of exchange within a governing intelligence or organization of complex systems. e.g.: The painter's arrangement of drawing, description of light, color coordination, and literary symbolism achieve an amazing state of Transfluence.
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Zen Process
The Organizing Vision
Lecture 1
The term Zen as it is used here comes from the comparison of art to Zen archery. I describe the artistic consciousness as the bow, the organizing vision. The disciplines themselves are the arrows.
Introductory Lecture:
Balance, Form, Action
Cross Pollination
Keystone of Perception
Balance is an influence or force tending to produce equilibrium. We start by considering our base of reference from this view. As we discover polarizing events we dilate our perception to the greater arena of interplay. The multiple fields interacting as viewed from a focal plain or vantage point sufficient to successfully describe these events is our point of balance.
Form is the shape and structure of an object, the mode in which a thing exists, acts, or manifests itself, or the essence of something. Our discoveries lead us to define various forms. These forms help us to organize our understanding of disciplines and their function.
Action is the causation of change by the exertion of power or a natural process. When we energize a system we observe the process in action. This is the proofing of our knowledge.
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Keystone of Perception
The author, director, conductor, or producer continues management of complex systems and disciplines to achieve a unified work.
The term interdisciplinary, has functioned as a catch all umbrella to cover various fields of endeavor encompassed by an individual's work. The limitation of this description is in presumed quality. "Jack of all trades" is the specialists assumption that mastering multiple disciplines is beyond human attainment. The degree of difficulty for the true interdisciplinary is like a big wave for a surfer. The steep learning curve becomes the desired challenge. In Zen Process the ocean of knowledge and experience provide many challenging waves.
Experts in multiple fields stand apart from the "Jack" of multi disciplines. We expect the Expert's profound achievement merits highest regard from the foremost practitioners within each field.
The ability to bring a focus of vast expert achievement to any process is the desired result of the Zen Process Expert. Management of multiple fields comes out of the ability to define the focus of achievement on process. The art of process is the bow. When our process is a flexible strong instrument, we achieve our many goals with ease. One bow, many arrows. One unified art.
Additional lectures are available. They address the creative process and applications to specific forms of problem solving using the meta-discipline concepts of Zen Process.
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