Ars Electronica 2006
Simplicity: The Art of Complexity ![Ars Electronica 2006<br> <br>Simplicity: The Art of Complexity]()
Edited by Christine Schàpf and Gerfried Stocker.
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.
PUBLISHED BY: Hatje Cantz Publishers
FORMAT: Paperback, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 416 pgs / 200 color and 30 b&w.
ISBN: 9783775718349 ISBN10: 3775718346
PUBLICATION DATE: 11/15/2006
AVAILABILITY: Temporarily out of stock. Check your local bookstore or museum shop for copies.
Bookseller Price Code: TRADE
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