AI x Creativity: Matthieu Lorrain & Savannah Kunovsky

Oblique Strategies, created by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt, is a deck of cards containing cryptic prompts designed to stimulate creative thinking and problem-solving. Each card presents a concise statement or question intended to disrupt habitual thought patterns and encourage lateral thinking. The cards are used as a tool to overcome creative blocks, generate new ideas, and approach challenges from unexpected perspectives. The ambiguous nature of the prompts encourages users to interpret them in relation to their specific context, fostering individual creativity and collaborative exploration. Oblique Strategies has become a widely used tool in various creative fields, including music, design, and software development.

La Disparition, translated as A Void in English, is a lipogrammatic novel written by Georges Perec in 1969. The book is a remarkable example of the Oulipo movement, which seeks to expand literary possibilities through formal constraints. Perec's novel avoids the use of the letter E, a challenge that significantly limits the vocabulary available. This constraint reflects the broader themes of the book, including loss, absence, and the Holocaust, which had a profound impact on Perec's life. The novel is a philosophical and literary exploration of the power of language and the human experience of loss and survival.