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Your World of Creativity

Schuyler Dragoo, Interdisciplinary Artist and Researcher

Your World of Creativity

Mark Stinson

Arts, Education, Marketing, Design, Business, Self-improvement

5.045 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back, friends, to Your World of Creativity—the podcast where we explore inspiration, innovation, and imagination from around the globe. I’m your host, Mark Stinson, and today we’re diving into a fascinating intersection of creativity, consciousness, and cutting-edge technology.

My guest is Schuyler Dragoo—an interdisciplinary artist and researcher whose work spans painting, performance, music, video, sculpture, and beyond. But what sets Schuyler apart is her deep inquiry into the intersections of technology, neurodivergence, and nonhuman perception. She’s recently completed an MFA at Tufts and an MA in Psychology, bringing together art, science, and strategy in ways that are absolutely captivating.

Schuyler's Website

@painted.goose on Instagram

1. Art and Awareness Across Species

“You explore nonhuman perception and interaction—something most artists never even think about. What first drew you to this idea of creating work that bridges the human and nonhuman experience?”

  • Sensory translation, AI interpretations of animal behavior, or speculative interaction.
  • Examples from her painting, sculpture, or video installations.

2. Neurodivergence as a Creative Lens

“You’ve mentioned neurodivergence in your work—not just as a subject, but also as a mode of perception and creativity. How does neurodivergence inform the way you see or create systems, art, and technology?”

  • Non-linear thought, pattern recognition, or how psychology and art intersect in her process.

3. From Concept to Code: Building Tools, Not Just Ideas

“Unlike many artists, you actually build things—AI bots, automation systems, narrative engines. Can you share an example of a tool you’ve created that brought together creativity, strategy, and real-world performance?”

  • Her work in performance marketing or AI-driven behavior tools.
  • How does creative strategy function like anthropology?

4. Making Systems Feel Human

“You’ve said you approach creative work as a system—and you design systems that feel human. What does that look like in practice? And how do you make sure technology doesn’t lose its emotional resonance?”

  • Walkthrough of design thinking + behavioral insight
  • Discussion on ethics, empathy, and human-centered design.

5. What’s Next in the Ecosystem of Your Work?

“With your background in psychology, tech, and performance art—what kinds of projects are on the horizon for you? Where do you see the biggest potential for impact next?”

  • MFA and MA capstone projects
  • Upcoming collaborations, gallery shows, or tool launches
  • Vision for AI and neurodiverse design spaces

Schuyler, thank you for opening up your world of creativity with us today. From speculative design to neurodiverse intelligence, your work really reminds us how broad and brilliant the creative landscape can be when we embrace systems thinking and cross-domain fluency.

As always, we want to thank our sponsor—White Cloud Coffee Roasters. Listeners, you can enjoy a 10% discount off your first order when you use the code CREATIVITY at checkout. Just visit WhiteCloudCoffee.com.

Until next time, keep exploring your world of creativity. Be sure to subscribe, rate, and review the podcast on your favorite app. We’ll see you in the next episode!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Unlocking your world of creativity with bestselling author and brand innovator Mark Stinson.

0:08.8

This episode is brought to you by White Cloud Coffee Loasters, where every bean tells a story of adventure.

0:15.5

Visit whitecloudcoffee.com and use the code creativity.

0:20.1

Welcome back, friends, to our podcast, Your World of Creativity, where we explore inspiration

0:25.9

and innovation and imagination around the globe.

0:29.9

And today we're stamping our creative passport in Boston and talking about the

0:34.1

fascinating intersection of creativity and consciousness and cutting-edge technology

0:40.2

even. My guest is Skylar Drago. Skylar, welcome to the show. Hi, I'm so glad to be here. Thanks for

0:47.4

having me. This is exciting. Skylar is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher. Her work spans

0:53.3

painting and performance and music and video and

0:56.0

sculpture. Oh my gosh. The media abounds. And she's just completed her MFA at Tufts. She had a

1:03.1

master's in psychology. So intersection of technology and science, even neurodivergence, and non-human perception is what I read.

1:14.3

Schuyler, that's even more fascinating.

1:16.7

Let's get into some of this captivating work.

1:19.9

When you have explored art and awareness across these intersections,

1:27.0

something a lot of artists never even think about as they're thinking

1:30.6

about their one medium. What drew you to this idea of creating work that bridges all these

1:37.1

experiences? I will be maybe a little bit brutally honest and say that it is partially due to my rampant ADHD and

1:46.7

by I think love of jumping from one thing to another and really getting to dive into something

1:52.3

and fully understand it and then take the skills from that and apply it to something else.

1:55.8

I joked for a while that when people were asking me, especially my MFA program, oh, what kind of

2:00.6

art do you do?

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