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Sir Jony Ive’s 2021 CCA Commencement Honorary Doctorate Address

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IBM’s design philosophy and principles

IBM’s design philosophy and principles

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Technical advancements are not creative CONCEPTS

Technical advancements are not creative CONCEPTS

Ongoing advances in technology always open new possibilities for creatives and developers. It’s a way of life in digital media.

But do those exciting new advances make us better or worse at what we do? How do they challenge our inventiveness and our range of skills?

I hate to report, but the most exciting technical advancements in our medium today are a trap of a sort that critically limits how creative most of us are. And many are blind to it.

In fact you could be doing significantly better work than others in your field if you just change your mindset. And I want to help you do that.

The only way I know to explain this is to tell you how I came to this place.

Source: https://www.theinteractivist.com/home/axiom5

The Two Strings Theory

The Two Strings Theory

How Humanity’s Deepest Longing And Beauty Are Hidden In Technology

Technology is advancing at an exponential rate. It’s overwhelming. And while there are countless technical domains that I cannot speak about with any expertise, I can talk about one.

My domain is communication media. And it, like all the others, is advancing wildly, exponentially, and in seemingly unpredictable ways with no end imaginable.

However, what has taken me years to realize is that counter to popular assumption, there is nothing unpredictable about the progression of technical advancement in communucation media, and that the progression does indeed have an actual end-state, a technical state afterwhich no further technical development will be sought.

What honestly surprised me most of all was that this end-state revealed something core, and beautiful about humanity.

Source: https://www.theinteractivist.com/home/axiom5

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“In
social media’s early heyday—the time of Occupy and the Arab Spring—big
tech was heralded in the mainstream as a democratizing force, but it’s
become clear that these commercial platforms aren’t serving the public
good. In fact, these platforms consolidate the worst extremes of
neoliberal ideology. While users are turned into products, the ruling
class becomes increasingly powerful and unaccountable to the people.

Digital
infrastructure offers no true space for dissent when it is privately
owned. Online activism only serves to direct atomized attention to
advertisers. This process mirrors the shift of public wealth to private
hands, whereby what were once shared resources (e.g. libraries) become
data-optimized, privatized operations. Work and life are merged entirely
and solidarity disappears behind corporate smokescreens. Underneath the
technophilic rhetoric of progress lies a race for information,
financial, and labor control that ensures growth is the domain of only
the rich and the few.”

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Digital art is an artistic work or practice that uses digital technology as part of the creative or presentation process. Since the 1960s, various names have been used to describe the process, including computer art and multimedia art. Digital art is itself placed under the larger umbrella term new media art.