John Maeda - Blog
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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.
