Exhibition
'JOHN MAEDA IS THE FORTUNE-COOKIE' - Riflemaker
John Maeda, digital art pioneer and current President of Rhode Island School of Design, follows up his groundbreaking 2008 Maeda/MySpace project at Riflemaker with a 'live' exhibition about wisdom, luck and information-getting.
Maeda (b1966 Seattle, Washington) is The Fortune Cookie; and he will relay his short and sweet messages twitter-style to the audience using a variety of means and formats - ripples in a pool of water, sand (in box), vapour (on window), flame-drawing (in the air a la Picasso) - maybe even by sending a text...
Each visitor to Riflemaker will be given a unique cookie, the physical apparition of which will be photographed (by the gallery and/or the lucky receiver) becoming an instant 'objet of affection/information'; a cookie to be mused upon, treasured, transacted/exchanged, sold/collected/stored by its new owner.
Everything is absolutely Live (no lipsync/no karaoke) once Maeda is in the sandbox, wiping the steamed window, gesturing in the air, texting the world.
John Maeda's display of voice-controlled computers is now on permanent display at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. In 1999, he was named one of 21 'Most important people in the 21st Century' by Esquire. In 2001, he received the National Design Award for Communication Design in the United States and Japan's Mainichi Design Prize.
In 2006, Maeda published Laws of Simplicity, his best-selling book to date, based on a research project to find ways for people to simplify their life in the face of growing complexity.
Maeda has recently exhibited at the V&A in London in Decode. He will present an exclusive new film work at Basel 2010.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Laws of Simplicity, MIT Press, 2006.
Creative Code, Thames and Hudson, 2004.
maeda@media, Thames and Hudson / Rizzoli / Bangert Verlag, 2000.
Design By Numbers, MIT Press, 1999.
Tap, Type, Write, Digitalogue Co., 1998.
12 o'clocks, Digitalogue Co., 1997.
Flying Letters, Digitalogue Co., 1996.
Reactive Square, Digitalogue Co., 1995.
Maeda (b1966 Seattle, Washington) is The Fortune Cookie; and he will relay his short and sweet messages twitter-style to the audience using a variety of means and formats - ripples in a pool of water, sand (in box), vapour (on window), flame-drawing (in the air a la Picasso) - maybe even by sending a text...
Each visitor to Riflemaker will be given a unique cookie, the physical apparition of which will be photographed (by the gallery and/or the lucky receiver) becoming an instant 'objet of affection/information'; a cookie to be mused upon, treasured, transacted/exchanged, sold/collected/stored by its new owner.
Everything is absolutely Live (no lipsync/no karaoke) once Maeda is in the sandbox, wiping the steamed window, gesturing in the air, texting the world.
John Maeda's display of voice-controlled computers is now on permanent display at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. In 1999, he was named one of 21 'Most important people in the 21st Century' by Esquire. In 2001, he received the National Design Award for Communication Design in the United States and Japan's Mainichi Design Prize.
In 2006, Maeda published Laws of Simplicity, his best-selling book to date, based on a research project to find ways for people to simplify their life in the face of growing complexity.
Maeda has recently exhibited at the V&A in London in Decode. He will present an exclusive new film work at Basel 2010.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Laws of Simplicity, MIT Press, 2006.
Creative Code, Thames and Hudson, 2004.
maeda@media, Thames and Hudson / Rizzoli / Bangert Verlag, 2000.
Design By Numbers, MIT Press, 1999.
Tap, Type, Write, Digitalogue Co., 1998.
12 o'clocks, Digitalogue Co., 1997.
Flying Letters, Digitalogue Co., 1996.
Reactive Square, Digitalogue Co., 1995.
Start
16 Nov 2010
End
18 Dec 2010
Times
Monday - Friday 10am – 6pm, Saturday 11am – 6pm
Venue
Riflemaker
Address
79 Beak Street, London, W1F 9SU. UK
Phone
07792 706 494
Website
www.riflemaker.org
Cost
Free
Posted
25 Aug 2010
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