7 / Information
Fall 2010
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.
Issue 7 Introduction
Issue introduction by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context
The Data City
Essay by Richard Prouty, writer and author of the blog One-Way Street
The Architecture of Information
Information compiled by MAS Studio
Intuitive Design
Andrew Clark and Iker Gil interview Naoto Fukasawa on the occasion of his lecture and exhibition in Chicago hosted by Luminaire
Depicting Patterns
Visualizations by Aaron Koblin, artist and technology lead of Google's Creative Lab
Making Visible the Invisible
Iker Gil interviews interactive media artist George Legrady
Photography, Information, and Meaning
Essay by Jörg M. Colberg, editor and founder of Conscientious, a website dedicated to contemporary fine-art photography
It’s Not Information Overload. It’s Filter Failure
Clay Shirky explains the challenge of the always evolving information: the filtering process
Information and the Reluctant Image
A conversation between Iker Gil and artist Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle in his Chicago studio
Lines of Reading
Artwork by Jack Henrie Fisher, graphic designer and design research at Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, The Netherlands
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
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
Identity
Artwork and text by artist Nick Gentry