Flashforward Boston: The Aesthetics of Computation
Rough Draft Notes
John Maeda
MIT Media Lab
Did a lot of old school work on a Mac
Focus on local goods. Focus on local crafts. How to marry creative folks with business outlets.
Wasn't allowed to do art. Paul Rand. ABC, Limited, Next, logos.
Media Lab. Technology lab with good branding. Muriel Cooper. Pioneer of digital graphical design space. Art director of MIT press for 30 years. Lead visual language workshop.
If you just make stuff good things will happen. Phantom relax with physical material.
Classics are waiting. Do something young. Computer is a different kind of system, it doesn't get tired.
Gone from visual range but still there on the computer. Go into infinity.
Do these things, what is it for?
program inks of page but leave it open for interaction
Inverse paint. Fixed brush, program moves.
Radial paint.
Time paint. Draw in time. Sculptural view
Reactive tools. All available on the web. Color type writer.
Tap Type Write
2001 Media Lab didn't want to run media library. Retired in 2002.
4 grad students
openstudio.media.mit.edu
interactive art studio, networked world, and how to be profitable. Creativity, collaboration, and commercialism.
opencode.media.mit.edu
Jello based processing language. All development on the web site.
E15
Take all content on the web and display it in a non browser environment. Change, modify, and organize how a user wants instead of viewing data as presented.
python code to generate 2d code onto 2d canvas. leverage ability to change things on the fly.
richer perception of time
3d browser history to view where you've been
load up a bunch of pages at once
e15.media.mit.edu (new project)
relation databases
social networking relationships
making the system easy to use
aggregating data to generate complete picture of someone online.