Oh fuck. Not good. And Heiko Daxl also passed away yesterday, another key figure in media art, in the German scene - and all young (relatively speaking).
Simon On 29 May 2012, at 14:07, marc garrett wrote: > R.I.P Andy Cameron. > > Andy Cameron, digital pioneer, co-founder of the Antirom collective, > artist, teacher and, latterly, creative director at Fabrica and Wieden + > Kennedy, has died unexpectedly. > > Cameron was a hugely influential and inspirational figure in the > development of digital media, both through his own work (which > encompassed commercial projects as well as art installations for shows > in the Barbican, MoMA in New York, the V&A and the Pompidou Centre) and > as a teacher and mentor at first the University of Westminster and > latterly at Fabrica, Benetton's research centre. He believed > fundamentally in the potential of digital media to re-invent the way we > communicate with one another. A great many of those leading the field of > digital design and interactive media today were influenced, inspired and > guided by him. > > Cameron first became interested in digital media in the early 1990s > after becoming disillusioned with photography. "I realised I was just > deeply bored with photography and was really, really excited by the > opportunities that interactive representations offered," he told CR in a > July 2010 interview. "I just thought it was really, really cool that you > could interrogate an image and that it would respond to your actions in > different ways depending on what you did. I actually still haven't got > over that, I still think it's really cool." > > http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2012/may/andy-cameron > > -- > Other Info: > > Furtherfield - A living, breathing, thriving network > http://www.furtherfield.org - for art, technology and social change since 1997 > > Also - Furtherfield Gallery& Social Space: > http://www.furtherfield.org/gallery > > About Furtherfield: > http://www.furtherfield.org/content/about > > Netbehaviour - Networked Artists List Community. > http://www.netbehaviour.org > > http://identi.ca/furtherfield > http://twitter.com/furtherfield > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > Simon Biggs [email protected] http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ @SimonBiggsUK skype: simonbiggsuk [email protected] Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ http://www.elmcip.net/ http://www.movingtargets.co.uk/
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