Doug Aitken
Doug Aitken
Doug Aitken is an American multimedia artist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
CountryUnited States of America
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 core creating cross cultural empower friction mediums music natural provide reasons
One of the core reasons for creating 'Station to Station' was to provide a space for exploration and cultural friction between different mediums. It should be natural for mediums like music, film and art to cross over, and we wanted to empower that process.
allowing art collecting cultural embedded haunts left love minds owning preserving stays
I love art that haunts me, that stays with me, that is left embedded in my mind. I don't really think there is any use for owning or collecting art; it is more about remembering and preserving it in the minds eye and allowing it into your cultural DNA.
art break came create creators empowering less nomadic urgency
'Station to Station' came out of a sense of urgency - a sense that culture, be it art, film or architecture, has become so compartmentalised. For this project, we wanted to break that and create a language that is more nomadic and less materialistic and really empowering for the creators and the audience.
across art artistic century cultural defined diverse instead movements music occupy period platforms various
The 20th century is a period defined by cultural and artistic movements. However, the 21st century creative-scape that we occupy now doesn't really have movements in the same way. Instead it's made up of diverse individuals working across various platforms simultaneously; art, architecture, film, music and literature.
art exists galleries venues
We live in a world where art exists in galleries and museums, and musicians have to play the same venues over and over.
art best hunger peel reminds wake
I think there is a hunger for things that wake you up, something that makes you peel back your eyes, that reminds you that you are alive. Art is at its best when it is in the 'now.'
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.
art levels
Art is always a search for understanding, and the different levels and frequencies of that search feel completely comfortable and natural to me.
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.
attempt create defined interested medium mediums spectrum tools using wide
I have always just made things. I don't see what I make as being defined by a medium or aesthetic. It probably comes more from a fundamental restlessness, an attempt to create tools for questioning or understanding, and I have always been interested in using a wide spectrum of mediums to do this.