Speed factor in relation to the unconscious in art practices

Within the changing parameters of the 21st century, the concept of speed emerges as a priority in every field and makes the speed culture phenomenon real. The speed culture does not contain established patterns and ingrained habits, and prioritizes skills such as quickness in thinking and comprehension and adaption to the new. Our habits, which are difficult to break, are realized unconsciously as a product of automatisms and are under the umbrella of implicit memory. Automatism, which is the common point of habits and the skills acquired through the repetition art practices, is characterized by features such as speed, unconsciousness, uncontrollability and effortlessness. Artists and designers from different movements use speed and speed's dynamics such as automatism, intuitiveness, randomness and uncertainty to trigger the unconscious realm, develop their creativity and form a unique artistic language (idiolect/idiostyle). Art practices that are developed to this end do not aim to further automate a skill that is already automatic, but to add something to it and liberate the creative process, include breaking habit cycles such as conditioned gaze. The gesture drawing practices used in visual arts education provide a fertile field to develop cognitive flexibility that enables breaking established habits, thinking creatively. By bringing an original and current interpretation to this field, experimental and gesture drawing sessions were carried out with art students from Anadolu University Fine Arts Faculty Painting, Sculpture, Graphic Arts, Cartoon and Animation Departments. It can be accepted the speed factor turns into a mechanism that helps reveal the instantaneous and random forms, unconscious content and associations, which are considered as positive predictors of creativity.