April 29, 2012
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New World Manifesto
We're cool with the idea of an augmented life, augmented reality, and Artificial Intelligence. We're pretty sold on every crazy idea there is towards the future, and we're pretty sold on moving into the virtual space completely. Right now, we're still within the constraints of the human body. Everyone has a nose--you don't see people just chopping off their noses completely. No one can really have tentacles, but maybe in a digital world you could. It's kind of crazy to think that technology has replaced evolution. It's sped up the entire process. We've gotten to this point where we've invented this thing called technology, now it's just this exponential process increasing endlessly.
There's this program at NYU. It's really impossible to describe, but essentially, it's an engineering school for artists and an art school for engineers. Everything from people making data visualizations to help out responders for earthquakes, to people making robots, to people doing video and photography, all of it towards this interactive angle. There's this one professor, Clay Shirky, who talks about how for every positive thing that comes out of the Internet, you're going to have, like, a bazillion lolcats, and that we're just going to have to deal with that. It's human nature. How many tabloid magazines are there compared to things that actually mean something? How obsessed is human culture with bullshit? You have to weed through all of that to get to anything remotely positive or good or deep or meaningful. We don't know if that's going to change. [Interactivity or not.]
There's a whole breed of young photographers now that shoot "natural" pictures. Documenting what you see. Just a girl standing there like you'd see in the street. For what it's worth, that's what's hot--there is tons of business there. But for us, it sucks. Where's the art in just taking a picture of what you see right in front of you? Is there any input in that? Any thought behind it?
Pamela Reed // Mathew Rader // BULLETT Vol. II: The Illumination Issue
There's this program at NYU. It's really impossible to describe, but essentially, it's an engineering school for artists and an art school for engineers. Everything from people making data visualizations to help out responders for earthquakes, to people making robots, to people doing video and photography, all of it towards this interactive angle. There's this one professor, Clay Shirky, who talks about how for every positive thing that comes out of the Internet, you're going to have, like, a bazillion lolcats, and that we're just going to have to deal with that. It's human nature. How many tabloid magazines are there compared to things that actually mean something? How obsessed is human culture with bullshit? You have to weed through all of that to get to anything remotely positive or good or deep or meaningful. We don't know if that's going to change. [Interactivity or not.]
There's a whole breed of young photographers now that shoot "natural" pictures. Documenting what you see. Just a girl standing there like you'd see in the street. For what it's worth, that's what's hot--there is tons of business there. But for us, it sucks. Where's the art in just taking a picture of what you see right in front of you? Is there any input in that? Any thought behind it?
Pamela Reed // Mathew Rader // BULLETT Vol. II: The Illumination Issue
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