[403] in magellan
Forum: John Maeda, MIT Media Lab -- Thurs. Feb 24, 5-7 pm,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Anderson)
Tue Feb 22 16:50:02 2000
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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 16:45:14 -0500
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From: Greg Anderson <ganderso@MIT.EDU>
Of possible interest,
Greg
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The first Communications Forum of the year 2000 will feature John Maeda of
the MIT Media Lab. An artist, designer and computer scientist, Maeda's
ongoing projects explore the computer as a design tool and as an expressive
instrument -- a source of playfulness and audio-visual delight, a medium of
art.
In Thursday's Forum Maeda will speculate about MIT as a unique environment
for art. He will discuss his own work and that of his colleagues in the
Media Lab's Aesthetics and Computation Group. His presentation will aim in
part, he says, to help "MIT students to realize their destiny as humanist
technologists."
John Maeda is Sony Career Development Professor of Media Arts and Sciences
at MIT. He received undergraduate and graduate degrees in Computer Science
from MIT and moved to Japan to study Art and Design at Tsukuba University
where he received his Doctorate in Design Studies. Most recently, he was
awarded the 1999 Art Director's Club Gold Medal for his new media work, "
Tap, Type, Write," and the 1999 DaimlerChrysler Design Prize for his body
of work from 1990 to the present.
