but at the same time was like effortlessly stylish and does not look like a gamer at all. Paola Antonelli: I am an addictive gamer and I try to. Paola Antonelli: We have our furry mics, woo! In addition to being a badass in the art world, Paola is one of the most charming people I’ve ever met. And some of those things are in the Museum’s collection.but do they belong there? The world is full of little things that we use everyday - things that people have obsessed over, designed and re-designed and re-designed again. In this episode: not all “art” is fine art. I’m Abbi Jacobson, and this is A Piece of Work. Paola actually had someone paint the symbol right on the wall of a gallery - which I have to say, to me, is pretty inspiring. Paola Antonelli: See to me, modern design is exactly that, it's gorgeous, it's useful, it's available to everyone, and it has a connection to history and that, to me, was just this great circle. Paola Antonelli: And when we contacted him to tell him we wanted to do so, he just passed away last year, but he was still alive, he was so thrilled. So it's just amazing you know, it blew my mind.Ībbi: Yeah, every single one of us that, every single day. So at some point he thought "maybe I can abbreviate this." He looked at the keyboard of the teletype machine that he was using, he saw the sign, said "huh." Did a little research, and saw that it was exactly what he needed and he just used it, and the first email that he sent was talking about the sign. And so he was always using the name of the person, then he was using all these lines of code to connect the person to, at the end, to the name of the machine, so always the same lines. And in particular, Ray, was designing the email system. Basically, they were designing the internet. Paola Antonelli: And in 1971 there was this engineer, Ray Tomlinson, that was working for the company, that was actually contracted by DARPA to design the internet. Paola Antonelli: No, it's been there forever. And it was even in first typewriters in the 19th century and throughout the 20th century it was used by accountants.Ībbi: It feels like it's so related to the web. So the monks, that were copying manuscripts, were using the sign to conserve energy because basically, it was a fusion of the two words in the preposition AD, you know, the Latin preposition, which means the same that the means today, it means towards, in relationship with, in connection with. Paola Antonelli: I started digging into the history and I found out that it first appeared in the Middle Ages. So in other words, she’s one of the biggest and most forward-thinking people in the art world and she wanted an “at.” She happen to be a Senior Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at MoMA. I should mention, Paola is not just some random person I’m standing in the shower with. and I started thinking "why can't we acquire it?" Paola Antonelli: I just started thinking of how beautiful it is, I started thinking of how useful it is, I started thinking how much it's a part of our lives. That’s the little “a” with a circle around it that you use in every e-mail you’ve ever sent. Paola Antonelli: I don't know how it happened.maybe under many showers, I don’t know, but I just started thinking of the sign. She’s a Senior Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at MoMA. I know it’s weird to start a show about art in the shower.īut I’m going to start this show in the shower with Paola Antonelli.
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