Pro-Craftsmanship, Anti-Virtuosity

http://tackfilm.se

broadband.gov

nextstopdesign.com

Problems! ✴ telecommunications infrastructure and pricing ✴ copyright restrictions ✴ lack of sustainable business models ✴ lack of government commitment in open tools, open content

What is digital culture?

The culture of craft in a post-material era

“When coming back to Tokyo from abroad, my first impression usually is: What a dull airport! And yet it’s clean, neat and the floors deeply polished. To the Japanese eye, there’s a particular sense of beauty in the work of the cleaning staff. It’s in the craftman’s spirit — “shokunin kishitsu” — which applies to all Japanese professionals, be they street construction workers, electricians or cooks. A Japanese cleaning team finds satisfaction in diligently doing its job. The better they do it the more satisfaction they get out of it.” - Kenya Hara, Creative Director, MUJI

From a material culture to a digital culture

Demioergos public (demios) + productive (ergon) - Homer

T h e c r a f t s m a n ’s w o r k s h o p

The material-less European peasant

Craftsmanship: For princes and priests

“An embarrassment of wealth”

To y s f o r a l l

A n t o n i o S t r a d i v a r i ’s w o r k s h o p i n C r e m o n a

Stradivari violin in Madrid, Spain

“By the 1850s the musical virtuoso appeared to be someone whose technical skill had developed to such perfection that amateur players in an audience felt small, almost worthless in comparison. The rise of the virtuoso on stage coincided with silence and immobility in the concert hall, the audience paying fealty to the artist through its passivity.” - Richard Sennet

J a c q u e s d e Va u c a n s o n

Proliferation of cheap crap

Boutiques are back. Artisanship is in.

Where is the craftsmanship?

The culture of craftsmanship

Mike Migurski | stamen.com | mike.teczno.com

Digg Labs | labs.digg.com

Adrian Holovaty | holovaty.com | everyblock.com

EveryBlock | everyblock.com

Russel Quinn | russellquinn.com

M c S w e e n e y ’s i P h o n e A p p iphone.mcsweeneys.net

Zadi Diaz | epicfu.com

U n l i k e Tr a v e l G u i d e | u n l i k e . n e t

The New Workshop: Medialab Prado

Code is Poetry | wordpress.org

The end of virtuosity?

10,000 Hour Initiative

Luis Carlos Díaz

Portnoy

Nomad Green

Rising Voices

Thank You! David Sasaki twitter.com/oso oso@el-oso.net rising.globalvoicesonline.org flickr.com/photos/oso Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 3.0

Pro-Craftsmanship, Anti-Virtuosity

by David Sasaki on Nov 24, 2009

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