A website to keep an eye out for
http://www.adobemuseum.com/index.php
Although there are many spaces to exhibit personal work on the internet i think adobe have created something very unique with a great design that has the a strong digitally based authority backing it comparable to a real world Guggenheim or Moma
It starts off with a very interesting talk by john maeda on ways of seeing modern digital art + design. Breaking up the subject into three parts (1)atoms(the real) (2) bytes (the virtual) (3) Craft (seeing the computer as a process) ReallyReallyReally ... really? interesting. Warning: it can be a bit slow at times
P.S. Adrian, i think this could be where that "2nd modernism" we were talking about in our last chat could start off.
William Blake (1795/circa 1805) Newton, Colour print finished in ink and watercolour on paper support: 460 x 600 mm on paper, unique Tate Britain
Thanks for this link - an excellent one - great talk by John Maeda.
ReplyDeleteAnd, on modernism, some people have seen postmodernism as a brief interruption of the modern. Owen Hatherley's Militant Modernism is a good book. Also Bourriaud's ideas of the 'Altermodern' - though I'm not entirely convinced... 'Neomodernism' came in in the 1990s if I remember well, in architecture.
And yet, perhaps it's more like a spiral than a circle - things come around again, but never in quite the same way...
I'll make sure to put it onto the list adrian! I have yet to start into the list you gave me last time but john maeda and college work have me enthralled. Also I find the work of Michael Noll incredibly inspiring; he was an incredible visionary. At the time of his work he had no way of seeing the graphics he created until it was printed on paper, only coding to interact with! He also was involved in early 3d animation among other things.
ReplyDeleteI think the variations john maeda wants to see in peoples use and interactions with computers can be seen with new portable gaming systems. The Nintendo 3ds and its soon competitor from Sony have many ways to interact with the content with double touchscreens, buttons, gyrosensors and integrated cameras. There is a definite diversity of technology here