Software as the key artform of the 21st Century

Isn’t it time we stopped talking about media and returned to the term artform? A medium is ultimately physical in our understanding of it, no matter how enhanced or extended it may be. For me, one of the main achievements of the digital revolution is to have separated creative content from media. Now, no longer [...]

32A in Cinemas

[youtube dysIJlVXE0g] We’re finally in the cinemas in Ireiand with our feature, 32A. It’s been a long haul and the final step is one we have to take ourselves. Independent cinema faces a lot of new challenges. On the one side, there’s competition for audience eyeballs from the internet and computer gaming. And on the [...]

Ira Glass on storytelling

[youtube n7KQ4vkiNUk ] This American Life is one of my favourite podcasts. A recent episode, The Giant Pool of Money, outlining the background story to the sub-prime mortgage crisis was a standout. It was almost Wire-like in how it interwove high end financial shenanigans, the systems people have to work within, and the trials of [...]

Whatever happened to Computer Art?

I was asked a while back to give a talk on creative applications on the Mac and it set me off thinking about the early days when I first got into this. I have to say, it was much to the bafflement of loved ones and friends at the time, about 20 years ago. It’s [...]

Alles

There’s many nice things you can receive in the post from a festival, an acceptance letter, a prize and hey, a cheque is always good. Last week, we got an envelope at the office we didn’t expect. The Berlinale sent us out an envelope with t-shirts for each of our lead actresses, all wrapped up [...]

Once

Saw ‘Once’ again…. I love this movie… Related Tags: document.getElementById(“post-105-blankimage”).onload();

Don’t try to be original, just try to be good…

Nothing quite an old geezer who knows his stuff…. Paul Rand discussing his approach to work. Related Tags: document.getElementById(“post-86-blankimage”).onload();

Look to the music industry for pointers

People often talk about business and it’s quick adoption of the IBM PC.  Depends on the business really, just as the Mac started to invent a whole industry around desktop publishing, one of the more interesting early computer platforms, the Atari ST, was quickly adopted by the burgeoning digital music industry.  CuBase and Logic originated [...]