“I started connecting things to my body during my childhood. I approached the computer as a mediating element, as a form of visual art.” ArtBodyFormChildhoodElementsComputerVisualsConnectingVisual Art Author:Steve Mann
“I feel like we are so used to CGI [computer-generated imagery] and thank god because it is a wonderful tool, but there is an element of everything you are looking at has been created in the comfort of a studio. I want to return to a world where I can celebrate when you are really interacting with the world.” WorldWantFeelsHas BeensI CanUsedWonderfulReturnComfortElementsComputerToolsStudiosCelebrateThank GodImageryInteractingCgi Author:Larry Fessenden
“We've kind of grown up in a post-Star Wars era, and what Star Wars did to cinema, in terms of an explosion of that kind of blockbuster culture. It's thrown up a generation of geeks. With the evolution of computer games and the Internet, that's all impacted on us as a generation, and affected the creative element of that generation enormously. So whereas the different schools of filmmaking...” KindDifferentWarSchoolCultureGamesStarsTermCreativeGenerationsEvolutionInternetElementsComputerErasPostsCinemaThrownAffectedFilmmakingGeekExplosionsBlockbusterComputer Games Author:Simon Pegg
“Things involved with a computer fill me with a childlike terror. Now, if it were a nice ogre or some such I'd be more in my element.” IfsNiceInvolvedElementsComputerTerrorChildlikeSlayerBuffy The Vampire Slayer Author:Rupert Giles
“Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.” MenMadeSoulEndsPlayTogetherCreativityDesignCreationColorProductsShapesElementsComputerEssenceInnovationFundamentalsConsumersLayersShellsFinestWorkplaceImac Book:Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs
“Groupings of people that get together, think things through, come out to plan and so on, like unions or true political organizations, they've disintegrated. And people tend to be atomized - you get down to a society based on social units based on an atom - an atomic element - which is a person and their computer. Not a society that is going to be able to function freely and democratically. The tendency is there; it doesn't have to be, but its something to worry about.” PeopleThinkingPersonsAbleTogetherPoliticalSocialWorryPlansElementsComputerOrganizationFunctionUnionsTendenciesAtomsUnitsGet Together Author:Noam Chomsky
“There has to be the popcorn genre element, or I don't engage the same way. I like action and vehicle design and guns and computer graphics as much as I like allegory. It's a constant balancing game. I want audiences to be on this rollercoaster that fits the Hollywood mould, but I also want them to absorb my observations.” WayWantActionGamesAudienceDesignFitElementsComputerGunHollywoodConstantObservationGenreVehiclePopcornMouldAllegoryRollercoasterComputer Graphics Author:Neill Blomkamp