Doug Aitken
Doug Aitken
Doug Aitken is an American multimedia artist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
CountryUnited States of America
simple ideas used
I really like the idea of banality and repetition being used to generate the image, which are simple and unobstructed and not captivated by composition.
interesting design sound
In sound design programs now, you can literally sculpt the sound on visual graphs. Sometimes the visual programs are even more interesting than the music that's making them
views indecisive moments
I am fascinated by the indecisive moment and the peripheral view.
choices bases mediums
When you make work, the concept is the basis for it; all choices of aesthetics or mediums come later.
above changing constantly era exchange floating geographic physical
We're moving into an era when things are dematerialised and much more holographic. Floating above the physical world and the geographic map, there's another landscape that's constantly changing - something like a cloud - of communication, information, exchange and commerce.
ability class defy economic half minutes nature perfect pop song three travel
The perfect pop song is a 20th-century creation; it's not a sonnet, it's not an opera, it's something short - three and a half minutes by nature - and has this ability to travel and to defy class and economic structures.
act change explore looking ourselves seeing self singular view whether
In our daily lives, we see ourselves often in very reductive ways. I want to explore motion, change and flux, whether we are looking in the mirror or seeing ourselves in our surroundings. The singular view of self contradicts the act of living.
change designed museums nomadic restless system whether
I think about museums often. There are things that I want museums to do that they often don't. For me, I like it when there's a system within the museum that can continuously change - whether it's a museum that is nomadic or one that's designed so the building can shape-shift. I like restless spaces, and I want to be engaged.
accept found gears harmony peace quickly switching technology turn
I don't really care about interruptions. I accept technology, and I don't turn things off. I've found a peace with fragmentation and a harmony with switching gears quickly to other things.
art engaging forms presented
We are engaging with so many art forms at once in the 21st century, but we're presented with them in a way that is so isolated.
art created finding history image largely living moving relatively tools ways
We're living in a tremendously new landscape, and the possibility of what can be created is immense. These tools of the moving image have a relatively short history in art, and what we can do with them is still largely unknown. We are still innovating and finding ways to tell stories.
mediums platform
I always thought about 'Station to Station' as an approach. It was about creating an alternative platform for culture where different mediums could co-exist.
affected based born course feeds interested religious rupture seen society time work
We are all affected by the time we are born into, and of course that feeds into your work. Society is based on storytelling - religious myths, opera, film - and 1968 was always seen as a time of rupture and fragmentation. I have always been interested in those words.
embracing friction seen
Our culture is not this thing to be seen from a distance. We need to be embracing the friction of it all - that is where the energy is.