Quotes by Doug Aitken

Were moving into an era when things are dematerialised and much more holographic. Floating above the physical world and the geographic map, theres another landscape thats constantly changing - something like a cloud - of communication, information, exchange and commerce.

Communication is paramount, and what medium or what format you utilize should be a non-issue. In some respects, that has created a barrier for new media, especially web new media, because often times maybe the media itself comes before the concept, before the ideas, and ends up navigating or dictating the outcome.

My office has two buildings that function like the right and left sides of the brain. Theres a room where everything is being edited for an upcoming project, but you can pull out of that into a tranquil space to work in a different, more solitary medium. Its an architectural unfolding of the process instead of just one chaotic structure.

The 20th century is a period defined by cultural and artistic movements. However, the 21st century creative-scape that we occupy now doesnt really have movements in the same way. Instead its made up of diverse individuals working across various platforms simultaneously; art, architecture, film, music and literature.

Station to Station came out of a sense of urgency - a sense that culture, be it art, film or architecture, has become so compartmentalised. For this project, we wanted to break that and create a language that is more nomadic and less materialistic and really empowering for the creators and the audience.

The perfect pop song is a 20th-century creation; its not a sonnet, its not an opera, its something short - three and a half minutes by nature - and has this ability to travel and to defy class and economic structures.