Transcript of John Maeda audio

John Maeda: So, went to art school outside of Tokyo, and I just kept reading.  They had a large English language library.  So art history, going back way back.  I was like wow,  there has always been this curiosity about art and how art advances the world and what’s science-like collides with it, and something happens like the Futurists, the idea that the automobile could change the entire perspective of art.  I was like huh, technology, science and art have always led to some kind of quantum leap.  Photography, you know, the unholy art.  Later, we love photographs, so technology always puts a little kind of an accident in the oyster, a little bit of sand gets in there and you wait a while and artists, people create the art that we all suddenly can't live without.