Emily Lutzker: The Dog Ate My Innovation

Emily LUTZKERThe Dog Ate My Innovation

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“it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”

“When I use a word,”  Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather a scornful tone,

innovaton (noun /i-nə-ˈvā-shən/)

1) the introduction of something new 2) a new idea, method, or device

new (adj./nü/)1) having recently come into existence : recent, modern

2) having been seen, used, or known for a short time : novel <rice was a new crop

for the area> (2) : unfamiliar <visit new places> b : being other than the former or old <a steady flow of new money>

3) having been in a relationship or condition but a

short time <new to the job> <a new wife>

4) beginning as the resumption or repetition of a previous act or thing <a new day> <the new edition> b : made or become fresh <awoke a new person> c : relating to or being a new moon

5) different from one of the same category that has

existed previously <new realism>

6) of dissimilar origin and usually of superior quality <a new strain of hybrid corn>

7) capitalized : modern 3; especially : having been in use after medieval times

THE NEW

THE BIG BLUE NEW

THE OLD NEW

THE NEW BLACK?

technology (fabric) or technique (manufacturing and design)?

TECHNIQUE:from Greek

"of art, technical"

FASHION

LEO STEINBERG

American art critic and art historian b. July 9, 1920

POPART

“One way to cope with the provocations of novel art is to rest firm and maintain solid standards. The standards are set by the critic's long-practiced taste and by his conviction that only those

innovations will be significant which promote the established direction of advanced art. All else is irrelevant. Judged for "quality" and for an

"advancedness" measurable by given criteria, each work is then graded on a

comparative scale.”

“A second way is more yielding. The critic interested in a novel manifestation holds his criteria and taste in reserve. Since they were formed upon yesterday's art, he does not assume that they are ready-made for today. While he seeks to comprehend the objectives behind the new art produced, nothing is a priori excluded or judged irrelevant. Since he is not passing out grades, he

suspends judgment until the work's intention has come into focus and his response to it is - in the literal sense of the word - sym-pathetic; not necessarily to approve, but to feel along with it as with a thing that

is like no other.”

FORGETTINGAS VIRTUE?

NEW TECHNOLOGY BUILDS UPON OLD TECHNOLOGY

INNOVATION is TECHNOLOGY as an EVOLVING ORGANISM

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SMARTS:

smart≠intelligentor intellectual

- Andrew RossThe New Smartness

INVISIBILITYIS SMART

+FORGETTING IS SMART

THERE IS NO DOG