Actually, not just in the RISD team, but leading the Rhode Island School of Design. Even though I never was to MIT, all those years of constantly following his work with the Media Arts and Sciences Department leave me now with a feeling of nostalgia cute! what can digital information do to a very sane person
I hope, and I know, his work will continue to be inspirational and I sure hope one day I get to meet the idea generator man in person.
I’ve got mail! not e-mail, dearest beloved, but regular mail. From whom? Ars Electronica.
Last year, Ars Electronica was about privacy, and how it is slowly but completely dissapearing from our universe… This year the festival is about the new cultural economy and its new limits on intellectual property.
Internet and technology has made copyrighted information become inadequate. The costs of its production gets lower and lower… things that used to cost a few years ago, are now plain free, but other businesses emerge, so the final user is not the one charged, but by his actions, he actually makes money for the business that gives him the free goods.
The commerce is nowadays a threesome .. it used to be a couple before that - you gave me something, I gave you the money for it. Today, you give me something, I spend some time on your website, advertisers get their commercials seen by me, you get paid by them heheee …
I’ve also been at a sound design workshop at the Next Festival in Bucharest and Jamie Travis came to analyze his work on Patterns Trilogy. It is soo good, and I especially liked the fact that these three films are extremely rational in directing approach. I usually don’t like that and I myself try to avoid being overrational when creating, but his works are so much taken into extremes that I can only say it is a perfect small piece of art.
I am also working with submodalities and I have discovered sound one of the most important aspect of a movie and one of the least credited by general audiences. The movies are 97% visuals and merely 3% audio. This is not fair
Hi, as I’m in a creative mood, I drew a little more for you. A la Chagall kind of drawing. At first, I posted the drawing, but when i tried to adjust the color in Photoshop, it hit me that it actually might look a lot nicer with this color animation effect. Enjoy!
Here’s a very cute idea on how to track your long lost glove… well, this site would have been very useful to me like ten years ago when I had a long series of lost gloves… now I learnt to track them with global positioning system .. lol
Jeff Koons, Ilona on Top (Rosa background), 1990. Private collection, courtesy Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
While in London, until the 27th of January 2008, go and visit the Barbican Art Gallery with this most amazing art exhibition. Erotic art and erotism is everywhere and in any artform, in any age.
Jeff Koons with his Made in Heaven series is hardly my preferred artist, but I have chosen him to illustrate my post as he seems to me the most vulgar in expression. I guess sexuality was the same always, and continues to be the same in the years to come, yet seeing kitsch mixed with sex, a thin line from art to porn, seems to be the key to this exhibition.
I’ve just read the iht.com article on Muriel Cooper and have discovered a great mind. Never knew where the MIT logo came from and that it was her idea.
She was one of the visionaries that forseen design as interactive and driven by simplicity. In the 60s when tehnology was only in its infancy, people tended to see it as a big monster capable of changing social realities but unflexible.
Cooper has reinforced the idea that on-screen design can be better than just linecodes …. Almost 40 years after we’ve come to Microsoft surface and Apple’s iPhone. Muriel Cooper sure was right!
Zoo Art fair says they target new talents, so maybe new talents are like wild animals. Now that lives me with two thoughts: either new talents need to be caged in order to be properly seen or they are on the verge of extinction so that they need to be preserved in a zoo.
“The selection of projects in Google Art, or How to Hack Google illuminate and critique the influence of this expanding online institution. The projects include ad hacks that attempt to foil Google’s seemingly unstoppable business machinery, playful re-interpretations of search results and alterations of its geographical worldview. Together, they elevate and critique Google’s logic, while recognizing its own deepening relationship with our culture, behavior and lives.”
I liked the simplicity (Maeda, again) of the concept for the GoogleHouses project. It is a website that searches houses images on google by different keywords (you can build interior image collections - bedrooms, bathrooms etc) and exhibits them in a 3D model of walls and interiors.
Good campaign for the conspicuos consumption that Louis Vuitton represents …. Perfect illustration for feeling disoriented in the real “unbranded” life …
Interesting that Takashi Murakami was commishioned for this campaign. The so called new Andy Warhol of the last decade has made a good point for the Vuitton brand.
cute! what can digital information do to a very sane person 
I’ve just read the 
so that they need to be preserved in a zoo.
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