How have you managed to sustain such high quality over the years? It’s pretty easy to successfully start a project. It becomes harder to maintain it successfully after ten, fifteen, or twenty years. When viewed in today’s light, the factors behind our success were: interdisciplinarity, having an appetite for risk, remaining internally and externally open, having a willingness to reinvent the self without loosin your attitude, and of course being surrounded by the best people. When we founded the association in 1988, we were driven by curiosity and a pioneering spirit. We wanted to find and create something that didn’t exist. We wanted to look into the future of the new medium, the computer. Even though 25 years have since passed and many fields of the former Terra Incognito have been mapped, the search is far from over. This field, the shaping of new media, repeatedly offers new forms of expression and technical innovation. The often cited but still valid is the quote by visionary and computer scientist Alan Kay: “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
FvonF - Joachim Sauter
