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Artists statement/questions
for the show, I had this up on the wall:
EVERYWHERE
My recent works are attempts to map the hybrid spaces we live in and to orient myself within a world that is continuously reconfigured with the evolution of digital networks.
Clusters of information spaces seem to self-organize in this dreamlike world in ways that are somewhat difficult but intriguing to envision. Every day physical spaces are being duplicated/recreated in cyber-architectures, which begin to accommodate us by echoing our familiar notions of space while still allowing for the increased freedoms of cyberspace. In the coming years, what will be the ratio of bricks to bits in our hybrid world? Will we be able to merge remembered spaces into the cyber-communities of the future?
As we spend more time in virtual environments, whether sending and receiving e-mail, exploring the web, or exchanging data, we act and communicate with others in spaces that are neither here nor there but somehow both and somewhere in between. We are simultaneously in our office and in their office, and also within an alternate and indescribable environment of free-floating, abundant and accessible information.
Most thought-provoking to me is that there is no Great Designer of the Web we experience. It is driven and evolves from the accumulated and changing movement, desires and interests of billions of individual users.
Once we think of cyberspace as a collective construction, new questions emerge: What do we wish for it to become? What and who can we access? What is the shape of our connectivity and what can we provide? Our personal networks, when mapped, span geographic, political and religious boundaries. Can our concerns really remain restricted within the small circumference of self-interest and the well-being of those closest to us?
From an aerial view, it is hard to ignore the similarities of our cities and roads to the internal structures of a large and complex organism. One might consider the Web as its growing nervous system, full of sensors, gathering and sending information to and fro. What is our role within this organism? What can it be?
EVERYWHERE
My recent works are attempts to map the hybrid spaces we live in and to orient myself within a world that is continuously reconfigured with the evolution of digital networks.
Clusters of information spaces seem to self-organize in this dreamlike world in ways that are somewhat difficult but intriguing to envision. Every day physical spaces are being duplicated/recreated in cyber-architectures, which begin to accommodate us by echoing our familiar notions of space while still allowing for the increased freedoms of cyberspace. In the coming years, what will be the ratio of bricks to bits in our hybrid world? Will we be able to merge remembered spaces into the cyber-communities of the future?
As we spend more time in virtual environments, whether sending and receiving e-mail, exploring the web, or exchanging data, we act and communicate with others in spaces that are neither here nor there but somehow both and somewhere in between. We are simultaneously in our office and in their office, and also within an alternate and indescribable environment of free-floating, abundant and accessible information.
Most thought-provoking to me is that there is no Great Designer of the Web we experience. It is driven and evolves from the accumulated and changing movement, desires and interests of billions of individual users.
Once we think of cyberspace as a collective construction, new questions emerge: What do we wish for it to become? What and who can we access? What is the shape of our connectivity and what can we provide? Our personal networks, when mapped, span geographic, political and religious boundaries. Can our concerns really remain restricted within the small circumference of self-interest and the well-being of those closest to us?
From an aerial view, it is hard to ignore the similarities of our cities and roads to the internal structures of a large and complex organism. One might consider the Web as its growing nervous system, full of sensors, gathering and sending information to and fro. What is our role within this organism? What can it be?
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Also just in: I need more line graphics.
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When you say 'I as the designer' are you saying each person designing the web for themselves in a way, by altering the view/style of all the pages?
I'm unclear...wouldn't we want to see the diversity of billions?
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I'd probably choose weird fonts for everything, but I doubt I'd override anything else.
On the subject of weird fonts, Helvetica Neue rules, and I'm going to bed.
[implodes gently into a bundle of sleepy synaptic goop]
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and for when you wake:
I suppose I would only override something that I found difficult to read into something more legible...otherwise...I don't know..the idea seems wrong somehow..am I odd?
and what was it you were mumbling about line-graphics in between snores?
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