Search for Simplicity in an
Over-Teched World

John Maeda
Allen Professor of Media Arts & Sciences
The Media Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

5:00 pm, Wednesday, November 30, 2005

200 College Hall, 3450 Woodland Walk
(off 34th b. Walnut & Spruce)

Seating is unreserved. Public invited.

Winner of multiple awards, including America’s and Japan’s highest honors in design in 2001, John Maeda has been called a risk-taker and agitator who is rewriting the rules, a visionary who has devoted his career to making technology more human. His watchword—and the new research agenda of MIT’s renowned Media Lab—is simplicity. His ultimate mission: to put the soul of the artist into the science of digital design.

Join us for an extraordinary evening as John Maeda shares his recent thoughts on digital art, computing technology, getting older, wanting to feel younger, and his personal quest for simplicity.

Selected Reading

maedastudio.com

Maeda blog on simplicity

Creative Code, Thames and Hudson 2004.

maeda@media, Thames and Hudson / Rizzoli / Bangert Verlag 2000.