Sometimes it's easy for me to get lost in my stream of consciousness
as I rattle on about things of the world to friends. David Small (of
Small Design Firm, Inc.) facilitated the whole process with his art
installation of "Stream of Consciousness" at the "Organic Information"
exhibit that opened at the Art Directors Club on May 6th. A joint
effort between the ADC and the Aesthetics and Computation program
at the MIT Media Lab, and sponsored by Intel, there were about 12
computers on narrow racks with two or three projects streaming,
flashing, intriguing and fascinating the guests. Vivian Selbo, Larry
Aronson, Rachel Kaberon, and Jim Carrier (of Tolerance USA, who
also stopped by my CWC event) were milling and looking and
thinking and discussing the inspiring work. Larry, Rachel and I spent
some time talking about Linux as an operating system and he educated
us a bit more on the advantages of mod_perl, perl, and differences
between these programming languages, apache servers and other
goodies like that. Larry definitely knows his stuff and has done a great
job administrating the WWWAC mailing list and transferring the
servers from Echo, configuring machines and keeping the bits and
bytes flowing properly. I also spent some good time chatting with
Craig Kanarick (Razorfish) and Grace Colby (gracecolby.com) who
were grads of the school, and met Richard Oakley (IBM in Boca
Raton), Brent Hood (President, Tangent) and Nat Connacher
(Connacher Design). Richard Winkler of Curious Pictures came out as
did Lara Stein and Alex Jacobson of shop.com. I also, finally met
creative recruiter and masterwoman behind the scenes at Wert &
Company, Judy Wert! We'd of course known about each other for
ages, but just never met. So I finally got to meet her and her husband,
a rabbi. Just before departing, Jeff Newalt of the ADC introduced me
to the masterman behind the scenes (and in front too) of all this
creativity, John Maeda, Sony career development Prof. of Media Arts
and Sciences, assist. Prof. of design and computation at the MIT
Media Lab, author, designer and Dad.