Ars Electronica 2006

Simplicity: The Art of Complexity

Edited by Christine Schàpf and Gerfried Stocker.
Published by Hatje Cantz Publishers

Simplicity is the wishful pipe dream of a society overwhelmed by technological revolutions and endless streams of information. Simplicity is the ideology of both technophobic naysayers to progress and a new generation of information designers. Has there ever been a concept laid claim to by so many different quarters? And, as an expression of the central challenge of these times, what call could be more urgent? Which options and features could we possibly do without? And which would we dispense with gladly? In this volume artists, software designers and scientists conceive and construct new strategic and tactical approaches to managing complexity, streamlining information, creating simplicity--a spectrum of ideas bound by resistance and adaptation, and a spectrum of work featuring creatively designed alternatives, poetically useless machines and innovative new developments.

D.A.P. CATALOG: FALL 2006 p. 152

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ARS ELECTRONICA 2006
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ISBN: 9783775718349
FORMAT: Paperback, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 416 pgs / 200 color and 30 b&w.
PUBLISHER: Hatje Cantz Publishers
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PUBLICATION DATE: 11/15/2006 | Active
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