I think the idea of embracing the process, creating something, no matter how thin it is, that you can call a starting point - whether it's a word or it's an idea, or it's a little piece of narrative that you might base a film on - starting that journey of making the work. That's also something that every individual does very differently.
Doug AitkenOur culture is just too comfortable in creating these kind of divisions between culture.
Doug AitkenDivisions between culture is not this precious thing, it's just this dirty beehive with things moving around, creating accidents, and violence, and harmony. It's this kind of beautiful mess, this matter.
Doug AitkenI really like the idea of banality and repetition being used to generate the image, which are simple and unobstructed and not captivated by composition.
Doug AitkenIn sound design programs now, you can literally sculpt the sound on visual graphs. Sometimes the visual programs are even more interesting than the music that's making them
Doug AitkenWhen you make work, the concept is the basis for it; all choices of aesthetics or mediums come later.
Doug AitkenWhat The Source becomes, in a physical sense, is almost like this particle accelerator. There's all these different, discrete voices and ideas. If you just saw two of them together perhaps it might seem completely diverse and like, "Why do you have these two people together?" But as it grows and as it speeds up, it kind of creates a larger dialogue.
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