{"id":33505,"date":"2013-12-19T01:15:03","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T01:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/ourrisd-earlier-in-the-month-outgoing\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T13:11:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T20:11:00","slug":"ourrisd-earlier-in-the-month-outgoing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/ourrisd-earlier-in-the-month-outgoing\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

ourrisd<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Earlier in the month, outgoing President\u00a0<\/span>John Maeda<\/strong>\u00a0presented\u00a0Post-digital: the past, present and future of design and technology<\/em><\/a>, an insightful (and at times humorous) talk aimed at RISD students.\u00a0In front of the packed auditorium\u00a0in the Chace Center,\u00a0the former MIT professor gave an overview of his early artistic experiments and some personal thoughts on the how creativity, art and design will help improve our ever-changing world.<\/p>\n

Before the start of the presentation, Student Alliance\u00a0<\/span>President\u00a0Rosa Glenn 14 TX<\/strong>\u00a0and Graduate Student Alliance President\u00a0Diana Wagner MID 14\u00a0<\/strong>gave Maeda a warm welcome.\u00a0\u201cAs you\u2019ll hear in his lecture [President Maeda] is enthusiastic, relentlessly inquisitive and is a model for how to ask questions that cannot be answered,\u201d noted Glenn.<\/p>\n

Wagner echoed her heartfelt sentiments: \u201cTo the rest of the world, President Maeda is known as an author, a graphic designer, a computer scientist, an artist and an academic.\u00a0But here at RISD we know him as being one of our biggest advocates,\u201d she said. \u201c[He] encourages us to think creatively and consider the ways each of us can be an artist and\/or designer as well as a leader.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maeda started off by revealing some of the interactive computer games he made in the 1990s. Inspired by Bauhaus artist\u00a0<\/span>Johannes\u00a0<\/strong>Itten<\/strong>, he made a number of programs that play with color while testing the limits of early computing capabilities. For instance, Time Paint<\/em> lets users make animations in multiple dimensions. And Reactive Square<\/em> responds to sounds captured by built-in microphones. \u201cYou can make the computer do things that you wouldn\u2019t expect,\u201d he noted. \u201cWhy shouldn\u2019t you play with that?\u201d<\/p>\n

The president also shared some insights gained after attending the National Design Awards at The White House.\u00a0\u201cThe world is so tumultuous; people are desperate to [find] new inspirations for how to think,\u201d he told the crowd. \u201c[In art school] we fail, we fail, we create, we fail\u2026We have a kind of fearlessness. That kind of ability is being called upon in this country \u2013 and many countries \u2013 to lead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Watch the video above to hear more from President Maeda \u2013 about his early experiments with computers, the benefits of growing older and other insights into the future of design and technology!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

(Source:<\/span> http:\/\/new.livestream.com\/<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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