Adam Savage’s SXSW 2014 Keynote: Art and Science
Adam Savage talks about the importance of the relationship between art and science for his keynote at this year’s SXSW Interactive Conference. What can scientists learn from artists (and vice versa)? How can technologists be better storytellers? Adam discusses these topics and more and then sits down for a Q&A with Norm!
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Great talk, Adam!
Some constructive criticism: I felt that you flipped through the slides too quickly and spoke too quickly. Either reduce the number of slides that you have or spend more time on them. There were some cases where you flipped past a slide even before YOU finished speaking about it.
Not liked, but love this video!!
I’m a museum exhibit designer(interpretation and educative, not art galleries) and art and science is an everyday bread for me! Thanks for this talk and I seriously hope we can have a chat someday!
That was great!
I know that I say that all the time, but it’s the truth! 🙂
Once again a very thought provoking talk. I personally have always felt that all scientists are artists, and all artists are scientists.
, it made me think of this new, pretty cool app. It really makes you think about your reading speed and if “forced”, you’ll able to read quite fast. I like that part about Adam’s speech, you were able to pick up all the information when he stuck to his main subject. Adam has a tendency to say “Oh, I have a GREAT story about this” 😉
That was worth watching.
Excellent talk, Adam. Always enjoyable.
you did a great job as moderator and had some fantastic questions of your own. You looked very comfortable in front of that audience. Nice work.
I’ve been thinking about this for several months now and I’m really glad to hear Adam talk about it. He made some very important points that people should hear. The world isn’t perfect and when more people understand what’s going on then it will get a lot better. I think the most important thing is that nothing is beyond your understanding. Adam has always been an idol of mine as well as Richard Feynman, and I’m really glad he’s talking about this because it’s a big deal that a lot of people don’t think about.
By the way, I know some people don’t have the time to sit down and watch an hour long video so it might beneficial for them if you split it into two parts.
Well said, Adam! And looking good too, if I might add.
I’d love to see him do this talk down at the Creationist Museum.
Lawrence (Larry) Lessig from Stanford http://www.ted.com/speakers/larry_lessig Absolutely brilliant with his usage of slides, very quick, but the fast slide movement keeps the audience engaged and focused.
Did Adam let slip a minor “Talking Room” spoiler when he mentioned Guillermo del Toro?
I loved the whole thing, but I’d particularly like to thank and for talking about imposter syndrome for a bit. It’s always good to pick up another data point in opposition to the ever-sneaking suspicion that one must be the only person who feels that way.
(Similarly, I asked my grandfather once when a person starts actually feeling like a grown-up in charge of the situation, instead of a clueless kid scrambling to maintain – I was around 30 and he in his 70s at the time – and he said, “I’ll let you know,” which made me feel better, because he’s always been kind of my benchmark for being good at everything. 🙂
I assumed that was an artifact of the time limit – speaking at a conference like that can be pretty brutal in terms of when they start playing the hit-the-bricks-buddy music. At last year’s Camden Conference I saw more than one seasoned international diplomatist start stumbling around a bit when the clock started flashing.
Oh, I hope so. That has the potential to be the best thing ever.
I love the relation of science to art and am fascinated in all of your projects. I am going scramble everywhere on the internet to find robot arms lost in a bog!
“I may not know Art, but I know what I like.”
I have always understood that phrase, and the meta-level it was implying, and wondered if anyone else did. I assumed, for a while, that most people did, but never really saw any clear evidence that they did. I’m glad that Adam saw it the same way I did, and now can again assume most people get it when they hear the phrase.
Adam, I’m an architect and combining science and art daily- thanks for a wonderful talk.
I think there’s a myth about being ‘creative’. I believe there’s no such thing- it’s all discovery whether you’re an artist or scientist, so I think your view on observation is so true.
There are so many artists that operate in an almost scientific realm like Ólafur Elíasson or James Turrell.
Just saw “Tim’s Vermeer” and was thinking about this speech the whole time. If you haven’t seen it, go see it. It’s a documentary directed by Teller (of Penn and Teller) following inventor Tim Jenison’s exploration of Johannes Vermeer’s paintings and the marriage of art and technology. It touches on philosophies very similar to those Mr. Savage explores in this speech. Like a steak, very well done.
shouldn’t the title be art and science?
Awesome.
Any chance you could post this as an audio only podcast as well (for those of us who tend to listen in the car and on airplanes where we don’t always have the ability to stream content).
I am a 20 year old Live and Installed Sound student. My job is, in part, to understand, design, install, and maintain a sound system. The other part of my job is to make what comes from that system pleasurable, what ever that may mean. The relationship between science and art has been one that has always seemed intuitive to me, but, at the same time, I’ve never understood why. Growing up with a computer scientist for a father and a musician for a mother, both science and art have been a huge part of my surroundings for my whole life, and all the while they were at ends with each other for most of it – fighting over which was more important, and which I could do. I could only do one, right? While I no longer have an internal struggle between art and science, I am still wrestling with the words to express to my peers and to the world the coexistent and symbiotic relationship between the two worlds, and how I have found myself bridging the gap between them.
I’m still trying to find a way to express to someone how I can love both and do both, especially as many people see the sound guy as a calculating robot out to ruin their sound. Listening to you give this presentation, you’ve moved forward my thinking on the subject. Helping me find the next step in my thoughts and my growth on this subject. And it’s not the first time you’ve done that for me.
I always learn something from you, Adam.
Thank you.
Enjoyed as usual. Good job Adam and Norm. Liked the Q&A. I bet Adam wishes he had more time to do power point talk in the beginning. Great questions Norm.
FYI There are atheist churches springing up around the country. For the very reason Adam suggests.. ….people getting together, celebrating life and talking about community.
Always learning………
superb talk, Adam. I work with my hands a lot, so I burn through a lot of audio podcasts everyday, but seldom take time to watch video podcasts, but when I heard about your Keynote I burned through the entire speech, plus excellent Q&A with Norm.
More than worth the candle. I even tweeted it at #PodcastsWorthHearing : where I keep the best of the best.