Flat (idea magazine no. 371)
2015the editorial prompt was to provide keywords and visual references in response to graphic design topics. i was asked specifically to write about technology. the editor madoka nishi was especially supportive of my participation, for which i am appreciative.
The genius of Warhol's "In the future, everybody will be world-famous for 15 minutes" prophecy is its ambiguity: whether that's hopeful or dismissive is left to us. As accessible communication technology bleeds across the map, the critical and financial hierarchies that have controlled the creative field continue flattening, and long-held standards of what is "good" or "bad", "cult" or "mainstream", and "high" or "low" face interrogation. The relative ease with which we can turn our personal values into public acceptance is pressurized by an expectation to clearly and honestly express ones values, and sustain presences past a single, bright flash.
Warhol, Lennon, Ono photographed by David Bourdon, 1971.