7 / Information
Fall 2010

© Jack Henrie Fisher and Andrew Clark
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INFORMATION is all around us. We produce it and consume it constantly. We process it, visualize it and immediately discard it. Inevitably, our everyday life revolves around INFORMATION. For these reasons, we talked to those leading the pack with their ideas and work. We wanted to know the opportunities, challenges, trends and mistakes of the so-called Information Age. Digest your new set of INFORMATION.

Contributors include Javier Arbona, Andrew Clark, Jörg M. Colberg, Jack Henrie Fisher, Naoto Fukasawa, Nick Gentry, Iker Gil, Aaron Koblin, George Legrady, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Richard Prouty, Clay Shirky, and Mimi Zeiger.

  1. Introduction
    MEANINGFUL INFORMATION. Issue introduction by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context
  2. The Data City
    Essay by Prouty, Writer and Author of the Blog One Way Street
  3. The Architecture of Information
    Information Compiled by MAS Studio
  4. Intuitive Design
    Andrew Clark and Iker Gil Interview Naoto Fukasawa on the Occasion of His Lecture And Exhibition in Chicago Hosted by Luminaire
  5. Depicting Patterns
    Visualizations by Aaron Koblin, Artist and Technology Lead of Google’s Creative Lab
  6. Making Visible the Invisible
    Iker Gil Interviews Interactive Media Artist George Legrady
  7. Photography, Information, and Meaning
    Essay by Jörg M. Colberg, Editor and Founder of Conscientious, a Website Dedicated to Contemporary Fine-Art Photography
  8. It’s Not Information Overload. It’s Filter Failure.
    Clay Shirky Explains the Challenge of the Always Evolving Information: The Filtering Process
  9. Information and the Reluctant Image
    A Conversation Between Iker Gil and Artist Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle in His Chicago Studio
  10. Lines of Reading
    Artwork by Jack Henrie Fisher, Graphic Designer and Design Research at Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, the Netherlands
  11. Discontented, or the Pursuit of Content in a Format Age
    Essay by Mimi Zeiger, Writer and Founder of the Architecture Zine and Blog Loud Paper
  12. Spaces for Architectural Discourse and the Unceasing Labor of Blogging
    Essay by Javier Arbona, Writer and Phd Candidate in Geography with a Background in Architecture and Urbanism
  13. Identity
    Artwork and Text by Artist Nick Gentry