The Innocent Eye Test, a three-week course with students from all departments at Konstfack, was part of the MA course Research and Practice at the department for Interdisciplinary Studies in 2008. Course leaders: Ronald Jones and Jenny Bergström.

We challenged the students to in collaborative groups work on a project that would involve questions about persuasion, display, performative aspects of research and the use of hoax as a tool for debate. They were asked to begin with practice-based research as an expression of soft power and use it, hack it and distort it to their own purposes.

In response they created Lars Eriksson and his lecture on Artificially Produced Creativity. The performance took place in the auditorium on October 31. During the lecture, which was open to the public, Dr Eriksson confronted the audience with ground-breaking results from his research on creativity and the brain carried out at ICA, the Institute for Creativity Research in Moscow.

Photos by Brett Ascarelli