M2:15.11.2010/ Karsten Schmidt aka Toxi
16:00 HIL E3
Karsten Schmidt aka Toxi, Postspectacular, London
< Code as the primary design tool >
There was a presentation of various works done by processing and a positive discussion on open source based creation.
Some ideas and citations from the presentation:
“Technology as Landscape of Possibilities..”
“You don’t need ideas, you need techniques.”
“From Objects to Operations”
“If you are not a programmer, you are the one who is programmed.”
The lecture was very inspiring. Toxi encourages to focus on and to develop concepts one is interested in. He says “Technlogy is landscape of possibilities” and he shows a huge piece of it. During th discussion Toxi mentions “newspeak concept (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak) and tries to explain the role of “complexity” as a complex thing and how people nowadays understand “simplicity”. He names simplicity as a stage for creating a new thing. I think Toxi took our souls.