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Set your compass to beauty, humor, and grief; stay the course no matter what, and I'll support you with everything I've got.

~Chris Jordan

Topics: Beauty Compass Course Everything Got Grief Humor Matter Set Stay Support You Your

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Activating is about changing people's perceptions of overlooked or invisible spaces. A building can become an archetype, invisible, like for a New Yorker, for example, the Statue of Liberty. You look at it, and it disappears into the thousands of times you've already seen it.

~Chris Jordan

Topics: About Become Building Changing Disappears Example For Example Invisible Liberty Like Look New New Yorker Overlooked People Perceptions Seen Spaces Statue Statue Of Liberty Thousands Times Yorker You

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One culture I find fascinating to juxtapose against American culture is the culture of Germany. They've gone through a long process through their art, poetry, public discourse, their politics, of owning the fact of their complicity in what happened in World War II. It's still a topic of everyday conversation in Germany.

~Chris Jordan

Topics: Against American American Culture Art Complicity Conversation Culture Discourse Everyday Fact Fascinating Find Germany Gone Happened Long Owning Poetry Politics Process Public Still Through Topic War World World War World War Ii

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All of my work is meant to evoke a whole bunch of different layers of discord between the attraction and repulsion that we feel toward our consumer habits and our consumer lives.

~Chris Jordan

Topics: Attraction Between Bunch Consumer Different Discord Evoke Feel Habits Layers Lives Meant Our Toward Whole Work

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I'm just becoming more and more aware of this truly profound responsibility that we carry as individuals. And it's a responsibility not only to ourselves and to our families, but to the billions of people who still have to come in the future who will be dealing with our legacy.

~Chris Jordan

Topics: Aware Becoming Billions Carry Come Dealing Families Future Individuals Just Legacy More More And More Only Our Ourselves People Profound Responsibility Still Truly Who Will

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My ideas tend to arise out of nowhere when I'm not intentionally trying to think of something.

~Chris Jordan

Topics: Arise Ideas Intentionally Nowhere Out Something Tend Think Trying

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There's an axiom I live by: 'There is no art without politics.' You either choose to engage it, or you choose political apathy. This ties in with ideas around real-time performance and feedback.

~Chris Jordan

Topics: Apathy Around Art Axiom Choose Either Engage Feedback Ideas Live Performance Political Politics Ties Without You

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I only want to work with transparent ideas and accessible technologies that 'spotlight' the individual's role in society through creativity. I try to live an open-source life.

~Chris Jordan

Topics: Accessible Creativity Ideas Individual Life Live Only Role Society Spotlight Technologies Through Transparent Try Want Work

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I hate the word 'rendering,' as it equates to 'pouring concrete' on ideas that demand continuing dialog. 'Trade secrets' imply hoarding of knowledge.

~Chris Jordan

Topics: Concrete Continuing Demand Dialog Hate Hoarding Ideas Imply Knowledge Pouring Rendering Secrets Trade Word

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American culture is not about experiencing our shame, it's about denying it. It's been that way our whole history.

~Chris Jordan

Topics: About American American Culture Been Culture Denying Experiencing History Our Shame Way Whole

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: Unknown

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