who is houyhnhnms? / alec crichton
- Who is Alec Crichton?
Alec Crichton is a British, Cologne based artist, designer and writer, experienced in a broad range of media technologies and research. He gained credibility in his local community through his participation in several cultural activities. He received his master’s degree at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne in 2007, where he is working on his thesis titled PARADIESFUNKTION.
- What are your projects?
Always changing.
- What kind of things inspire you?
Nearly everything.
- What’s the future of audiovisual art?
The place for audiovisual art is shifting towards the Internet, which is, compared to the art system, an open place, where products and ideas can find their own interest groups. Works will be fully cataloged in order to inspire future Generations and help understand the fundamental principles underlying an aesthetic approach to the World.
Whether the internet, the networked homeland of our culture, the digital place for exchange and memory, will help us bridge the gaps between us all - resulting from traditional thinking, the flow of money, advantages in information and human vanities - remains to be seen. In the digital realms parasitic relations seem to be expanding even further; we have to take this into account and influence the ongoing changes in a reasonable manner.
As the openness of the internet provokes new ways of participation, the resulting mixture of existing forms, in which we record and describe our common reality, represents an ever increasing challenge. Where technological progress and spare time breed a mass of data, the organisation of this quantity, its classification and hierarchisation, is the next step.
As energies are progressively set free, the fact that we are all part of a large stream is entering our collective consciousness. As describing and changing a present situation, through an act of creativity, is mostly based on reprocessing and constantly re-sorting former ideas, the need for access to these views becomes evident. Presently these ideas, in science and art, economy and politics, just like in any other field, are undergoing a systematic unification, which will help future generations to better investigate and understand our world.
In all ranges of human interaction, the internet multiplies the ways of perceiving and describing our world, undermining former barriers. Within the scope of an artistic form of communication for instance, the internet might erase the division of the entertainment industry and the art world.
- What’s houyhnhnms.tv for you?
I don’t know.