Karsten Schmidt aka Toxi, Postspectacular, London

postspectacular.com

< 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.”

http://toxiclibs.org

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.