The Next Wave of ArtScience: Breaking the Barriers to Innovation
Todd Siler
Friday, 14 Oct 2005 at 8:00 pm – Great Hall, Memorial Union
Todd Siler is the founder and chief creative officer of Think Like a Genius, LLC, a Denver-based company that develops multimedia tools for fostering creativity, innovation, and collaborative learning in businesses, schools, and other organizations. He has facilitated hands-on workshops throughout the world, consulting to such organizations as IBM, Blue Cross Blue Shield, The Home Depot, Procter & Gamble, and many others.He is a visual artist, author, and inventor who received his Ph.D. in interdisciplinary studies in psychology and art from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986. He was the first visual artist to receive a doctorate from the institute. He has published many articles and books on his work, including Think Like A Genius and Breaking the Mind Barrier Siler exhibits his artworks internationally in such major museums and galleries as The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Museum of Modern Art. Part of an interdisciplinary symposium on Breaking Creative Barriers: http://www.iastate.edu/~ceah/art_symp.html.Cosponsored By:
- Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities
- Art & Design
- College of Design
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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