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We’ve just lived through the most online period in history. What comes next?
My most intimate relationship of 2020 was with the internet. I did my job online, and talked to my friends online, and streamed hundreds of hours of TV that I’d already seen online, just to fill my empty apartment with human sounds. I used the internet to put scary Instagram filters on my face, and join a mutual-aid Slack group, and reflexively refresh the coronavirus case count in my zip code, and attend my cousin’s wedding, and blog about a parasocial relationship with an online Pilates instructor.
One of the more exciting calls I get as an artist working in the field of new media is for editorial illustration work.
Itâs rare. I most do generative design as a commercial practice. I donât have a background in illustration or even a portfolio of this kind of work, so I am always excited when an art director looks at my mostly abstract and gestural animations and inquires about a possible connection. I really enjoy brainstorming and thinking about what images or animation would help bring an article to life.
I am a teacher â at MIT Media Lab, where I help run the Future Sketches group, and at the School for Poetic Computation, and one of the things I teach is a practice of computational sketching. I love to see students engaging with code â seeing computation as a malleable medium they can use for art and design â but one thing I always see students asking is, âhow can I use this professionally?â Itâs nice to teach young people how to mak
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