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September 30, 2005
Technologies Change
Reading through Bill Viola's statements, what struck me most is his refusal to be tagged with the label of "video artist" and how it relates to my initial experience at ITP. As the first few weeks of school have passed by, I find myself thinking more and more about technology as a tool for the expression of ideas, and not the end in and of itself. As advances in technology increase at an astonishing rate, I find that it is of extreme importance that the medium does not become what drives people to create new forms of media. It is individual creativity, imagination, and the willingness to fail every once in a while that needs to drive the new media creators and designers of tomorrow.
Finally, I was intrigued by Viola's quotation of the Persian poet Rumi who stated that necessity is what opens up new organs of perception. In many ways, I feel that ITP has created the type of environment that has allowed us, as students, to play an active part in different areas of new and interactive media creation that we may not have had any previous experience in. In this way, I feel that we are all well on our way to increasing our perception, one small experiment at a time.
Posted by Fernando Cervantes at September 30, 2005 12:44 AM