David Small

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David Small (* 1965 in Manchester ) is a British -American media artist , media technologist and designer .

life and work

David Small received his Ph.D. in 1999. at the MIT Media Lab and subsequently taught there as a professor . He is the founder of the Small Design Firm . Small not only exhibited at Documenta11 , but also at the Museum of Modern Art , the Center Georges-Pompidou and the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum .

“In the Talmud Project (2000) a dynamic, spatially staggered typographical form based on Emmanuel Levinas ' Torah commentary allows the simultaneous view of three closely related text hierarchies: the Torah, the Talmud and the Commentary by Levinas. [...] In Minksy Melodies (1987), part of his more extensive Brain Opera project, the complex interaction of hearing, seeing and reading is tested with the help of dynamic typography that moves in time with a melody . "

- Short guide Documenta11

“ The Illuminated Manuscript : In a dark chamber lies a large, open book with white pages on a desk. As you approach, you can see that light projectors above the book project texts onto the blank pages. A different text appears when you turn the page. The passages listed are taken from writings or speeches by Abraham Lincoln , John Locke , Mahatma Gandhi and Franklin D. Roosevelt as well as the Gospel of Luke and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights . The projections are not rigid, but have a quasi organic liveliness in that they react, for example, to hand movements of the viewer between the light source and the book and deform into wave-like arrangements. "

- Rita Tüpper

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rethinking A Book. The Illuminated Manuscript by David Small. Text in art , accessed on May 28, 2019 (English)
  2. ↑ David Small on the MIT website, accessed January 24, 2019.
  3. ↑ Documenta11_Plattform5: Exhibition / Exhibition. Short guide. Ostfildern-Ruit 2002, ISBN 3-7757-9087-X , p. 216.
  4. ↑ Rita Tüpper: Iconoclasm against globalization? A résumé of documenta 11. In The Political Opinion , No. 396, on the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung website , accessed on May 21, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Small, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-American media artist, media technologist and designer
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Manchester