Matthew Barney
As creators we must demand of ourselves to invent new ways to live by rather than inventing new places within which to live.
Our tools, technologies and techniques for giving form have grown to the point where we must ask of ourselves to seek not new things to look at, but rather new ways of seeing them. As creators we must demand of ourselves to invent new ways to live by rather than inventing new places within which to live. This insolence requires an openness that is inherent in design, by design; an openness not to resolve existing problems but to seek new solutions and indulge in their appropriation.
I dream of an ecology of the artificial; of a framework, at once theoretical and scientific, that considers all physical artifacts to be children of the environment. I dream of creating a new language in design not mimicking but making nature; of building skins that breathe by osmosis, of prosthetic photosynthesis, and of printing the stuff of life.
"— Neri Oxman
— A Poetic Definition of Science Circa 1997 | Brain Pickings
— Yoda
