Hi Simon, It's a bleak realisation for all of us how fickle life (or death) is - quite a few of my friends & associates have passed away, many involved in media art culture, it makes me feel nervous...
Wishing you well. marc > 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] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ @SimonBiggsUK skype: simonbiggsuk > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Edinburgh College of Art, > University of Edinburgh > http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ http://www.elmcip.net/ > http://www.movingtargets.co.uk/ > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour -- 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
