... why do people do and believe weird things? Because in the end, feeling alive is more important than truth.
We have evolved in living creatures to express ourselves, to be creative, to tell stories. We are instruments for feeling, faith, energy, emotion, significance, belief, but not really truth.
As creative engineer(s) our graduates will distinguish themselves by their level of technical expertise.
... in science only one thing is more wonderful than how much we know, and that is how much we do not know.
technology
requirements
human factors
design
business
Theoretician, artist, do you intend to embellish the existing conditions with the ornament of your abstractions and to give theory or art an appearance of depth at variance with the truth, or do you intend to make (y)our thinking an instrument for the reshaping of these conditions?
As I leant against the wall the University indeed seemed a sanctuary in which are preserved rare types which would soon be obsolete if left to fight for existence on the pavement of the Strand.
Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own (1928, p. 9)
In addition to taking role model of the media artist as a reference in educating our students, exhibitions in digital art, that is art that uses digital technology in an essential way, can be taken as example playgrounds, exploring the relation(s) between space, digital technologies and human perception and emotion. Such experiments may indicate new ways to deploy technology and provide a reference of how technology may influence human experience, and provide the intellectual and cultural background against which student projects and experiments can be set.
/ open source / de Waag
/ chart(s)
/ in the wall!