Rodrigo Vives

Artist, Blogger, Connector, Educator/Teacher, Global soul, Idea generator, Parent, Photographer, Writer/Editor

I am a University Professor, Visual Artist, Business Administrator and Author. Also: Researcher, teacher and speaker about creativity and the development of creative capacities. I live in Argentina, where I work at the Strategic Plan of the city of Mar del Plata and teaching at CAECE University. I am also staff at the Nano Festival of Photography since its first edition in 2011 - I write in its blog, catalogs and exhibits. I teach Creativity, Semiotics, Photographic Language and Theory of the Organizations. In 2015 I published a paper about the relationship between creativity, happiness and consciousness. I show my photographic work since 2001, and it has been sponsored by the Secretary of Environment and Sustainable Development of Argentina and WWF (Argentina chapter: Fundación Vida Silvestre), among others. I worked at the Planetary of Buenos Aires, the stock market, the communications and healthcare industries and the Davis Cup Finals. I like to contribute to the creation of quality of life in society by the development of consciusness, generated through the vision that promotes the development of the creative capacities of its people.

Human Creativity. Art Photography. General knowledge that connects dots in the path of consciousness.

What I like about creativity and, more specifically, creative/art photography, is that we can create new worlds from an existing world. We can be more aware of reality, so we can question it as the 'real' reality. And by doing that, we gain consciousness - we get to know more about ourselves, we open our minds and we go beyond ourselves, all at the same time. That is meditation, and helps us realize this insight: Consciousness is not within us, we are within consciousness. The rest of us (our personality, our ego, our likes and dislikes, our experiences, even our name, our gender and everything that defines us) is not really ourselves. What defines us also limits us. And that is necessary in order to live our lives, but we must remember that we are part of that unlimited, away-from-time consciousness too. Consciousness is what remains.

Art Photography, Business Administration, Creativity, Meditation

I learned about TED from my friend Jacho, who introduced it to me by - of course - Ken Robinson´s talk. Then I organized the first TEDx event in Argentina: TEDxIndigo in 2009, where I also spoke about creativity. Then the first and second editions of TEDxMarDelPlata. All three of them at CAECE University, where I teach. I attended the first edition of TEDxBuenosAires.

Connecting ideas Writing Impulsing unity through diversity Championing the importance of the big picture I also love tennis and playing drums