"Matthew (M.E. Baird) takes a unique approach in his lectures, combining deep wisdom with engaging storytelling. He often begins with Philosophy and Literature, using them to frame his exploration of various art movements and subjects—something AI and internet searches can't replicate. Infusing his lectures with dark wit and unexpected insights, he dynamically delivers them, making the experience both informative and entertaining."
M.E. Baird has a background in music, art, design, and architecture, including art direction for film, television, and digital media. His multidisciplinary approach to creativity has given him a unique set of lenses and skill bases for examining creativity and expression.
For two decades, parallel to his music and art practice, M.E. Baird held sessional academic, teaching, and creative scholar roles across art, design, and architecture at various art and design schools and universities in New South Wales and Victoria. These include RMIT, University, UNSW-COFA, UNSW-Built Environment Department, Sydney University, and Deakin University. He has won several awards for teaching excellence. As an academic, he specifically examined creative philosophy, memory, and creative processes across various art forms, including art, design, architecture, film, music, and literature.
Although no longer teaching or undertaking academic work, M.E. Baird is available for private lectures, presentations, and one-on-one mentoring.
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CURRENT SERIES OF LECTURES & PRESENTATIONS
- Feasting On the Substance of a Good Idea.
What is creativity? The myths, the reasons, the ignorance, and why is 'substance' an idea's best friend?
- Abstraction
From hand spitting to everything and nothingness.
- Abstract Expressionism (The New York School).
From impulse to madness. A deep dive into one of modern Western art's most misunderstood, misappropriated, massed, mimicked and much maligned movements.
- Symbolism in Art
Symbols, Icons and Semiotics. An angel crashes to earth in Scandinavia while an Italian-Argentine Witch moves to Paris. Meanwhile, a traumatic scream can be heard from Oslo to Berlin.
- Did I Make You Cry?
Identifying and working with story value in music and film .
- The Art Of Listening (Interactive Workshop)
Drawing and mark-making are not only the very first forms of ‘recording’ for humanity, but are at the foundation of any art or creative practice, regardless of the medium or discipline. However, these practices and processes rely purely on the eye (observation), brain and hand connection. There are other ways of utilising drawing and the capacity to think at a deeper level, simply by including our ears and the process of listening. The method I employ uses drawing and or mark-making in response to compositions and audio-delivered text. These methods have been scientifically proven to allow different parts of the brain to be ‘switched on’ and stimulated, taking the intuitive thinking process to new and deeper levels.
