Doug Aitken
Doug Aitken
Doug Aitken is an American multimedia artist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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.
barrier communication created ends format itself maybe medium utilize web
Communication is paramount, and what medium or what format you utilize should be a non-issue. In some respects, that has created a barrier for new media, especially web new media, because often times maybe the media itself comes before the concept, before the ideas, and ends up navigating or dictating the outcome.
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.
burning falling feed life
I see life as a burning meteorite that you can climb all over, and feed off, as it is falling to earth.
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.
delicate sabbath surprising
'Planet Caravan' by Black Sabbath is such a delicate song from such a surprising place.
across aspects happening layers precisely series time
'Station to Station' is a series of happenings that go across the landscape. What is a happening? A happening is a moment in time. A moment in time that is not choreographed, where you don't know precisely what's going on. Where there are aspects of different layers of culture.
buildings chaotic edited function instead left office process pull room sides solitary tranquil unfolding work
My office has two buildings that function like the right and left sides of the brain. There's a room where everything is being edited for an upcoming project, but you can pull out of that into a tranquil space to work in a different, more solitary medium. It's an architectural unfolding of the process instead of just one chaotic structure.
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 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.
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.