Kiritori Mederu x Naoki Takehisa x Toshiya Hagiwara x Yurie Hata x Katsuhito Mizuno | Conceptualizing Web Media 30 Years Hence (Part 1)
Experts discuss the future of web media, design, and art relations following the SNS era, marking artscape's 30th anniversary.Summary
To commemorate artscape's 30th anniversary, moderator Kiritori Mederu, photographer Naoki Takehisa, web director Toshiya Hagiwara, graphic designer Yurie Hata, and UI researcher Katsuhito Mizuno discuss the state of web media, design, and art after the rise of social media. Hata emphasized the need for elastic graphic design that maintains identity across diverse formats like banners, despite varying display environments. Takehisa discussed the trend of "hetare graphics" (clumsy graphics) that disregard readability, arguing that contemporary photography is defined by the tension "between Photoshop and the iPhone," focusing on image sharing culture. Hagiwara criticized the dominance of platforms over content, highlighting that independent web media offers the unique opportunity to design architecture that prioritizes accessibility and machine readability for diverse users, including AI.
(Source：artscape)