A New Quest Awaits
I've always been interested in blazing new trails. As my friends have described my ambitions, "that guy is trying to ride the wave".
State of the Art
There are four interrelated disciplines that tug and pull at one another in the process of creation: art, science, design, and engineering.
Art breaks all rules and has no warranty.
Science observes actions and reactions and distills conclusions.
Design applies conclusions to create new mediums.
Engineering provides reliability for new foundations.
These forge a loop, art informs new science, science informs new design, design informs new engineering, engineering informs new art. Art informs…
Think about paint. Paint has not always existed. Paint was once created.
Original paint was mushed berries by early artists. Scientists concluded rain washes away berry paint. Designers painted inside cave walls for more durable exhibitions. Engineers devised a way to make environmental resistant paint that lines our roads globally. We skipped a few years, but that’s the progression.
Artists now assume the existence of paint, which is just one tool in their kit.
Exploring New Mediums
Technology has changed rapidly since my 90’s themed childhood. Artificial Intelligence, once a trope used exclusively by movies has become a mainstay in our culture. You might be surprised at how much generated content you’ve already consumed.
I’m not here to talk about artificial intelligence though. I am way more interested in actual intelligence. People are amazingly talented creatures, when provided with the tools and resources they need to perform art, science, design, or engineering.
The preeminent medium of our time is the web. The web connects us all and encompasses many mediums. Written word, music, movies, and games, one size fits all on the web. Click a link, a new experience is just around the corner.
In some senses, the web is simple. In others, the web is very complex.
I’ve been passively using the web since the mid-90s. I’ve been actively creating with, for, and against it since the mid-aughts.
Some tools from my kit have been engineered to survive the erosion of time that causes bits to rot. Others simply never became paint.
Speaking of the Future
With blogs dating back to 2004, podcasts from 2006, vlogs starting in 2008, I’ve always brushed emerging mediums, but ultimately focused my time on continuing my research and avoided getting distracted in seeking engagement and social status.
My primary research has been a simple charter: Seek the art of my heart, observe the actions and reactions my creations evoke, apply the results to derive new tools, and fortify them well enough others can have their own forever.
A simple feedback loop: Art, science, design, engineering.
In practice, this has been a challenge. I’ve needed to satisfy Maslow's Heirarchy, so I’ve typically worked a job to get money to pay bills in an economy that has been running away with the ball for _my entire life_.
Here, I’m aiming to build a community of people interested in my work, my perspectives, my conclusions, but ultimately I want people to engage with me to shape the future of where we want to be when we control our own digital destinies.
And I want to make enough money to continue my research full time by getting paid for knowledge sharing.
More to come.