15th
August
2006
Process vs Outcome
“At the recent Media Lab faculty retreat led by our new director Frank Moss, we had an interesting time discussing our favorite topic here at the Lab — the future. It’s never easy to discuss the future when you’re living in the present of the course, but with the impressive array of colleagues I have here it’s not that difficult. Digital music impresario Tod Machover and the mind of Lego’s Mindstorm Mitch Resnick led a discussion about the future of creativity. It was here that the past collided with the future, or at least in my mind. The timeless question in art arose: What matters more: the process of creating an artwork, or just the artwork alone? There are only a few variants to this answer. My simple mind calculates four total…”