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JOHN MAEDA “CODED BLUE”

HAPPENINGText: Kanya Niijima

Associate Director of the MIT Media Lab and Director of Aesthetics and Computation Group of the lab, John Maeda fuses computer science and visual arts to challenge the common understanding of computer aided design/art. Instead of applying the pre-packaged design software widely available in the market, Maeda’s creative process delves into the deeper substance below the surface of today’s digital art – Maeda writes his own code to visualize his ideas and develop aesthetics. The results are a new definition of designing on computers. Maeda’s work is composed of unpredictable, fresh concepts and styles beyond the creative limits that are often seen today in many routinely formatted designers’ work with off-the-shelf software.

“The biggest problem with tools, Maeda says, is that they give designers the illusion of unfettered creativity. Designers think ‘I can make my imagination.’ They don’t realize they’re in someone else’s imagination.”
– Karrie Jacobs (“The Maeda Touch”, I.D. Magazine. November, 1998)

In the I.D. Magazine article by Karrie Jacobs, Maeda ponders an awareness of exploring computers as a more profound artistic media. He advocates raising a new generation of the artists/programmers hybrids, who can shift the common paradigm of digital design to higher integration of creativity.

As a Capp Street Project artist-in-residence at the California College of Arts and Crafts (CCAC), Maeda will hold two exhibitions this fall, “Maeda @ Media” and “Coded Blue.” Maeda @ Media presents his recent work, including digital interactive books, posters, and sculptural work. For Coded Blue, Maeda will create a new installation work during his residency and show his approach to designing by code.

John Maeda “Coded Blue”
Date: November 18th – December 16th, 2000
Open: 11:00 – 17:00 (Tuesday till 21:00)
Closed on Sunday
Place: Logan Galleries (CCAC)
Address: 1111 Eighth Street, San Francisco, CA 94107
Tel: +1 415 551 9210
http://www.maedastudio.com

Text: Kanya Niijima

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