Yesterday, while traipsing down some lovely worm-hole of the blogsphere, I came upon a link to Molly Wright Steenson's paper that she gave at Digital Genres, entitled "Imaginary Architects: From the Crystal Chain to the Blog". I recommend reading it if you are interested in how the ideas of the early 20th Cent. Art avante-garde and theorists are still affecting and linking to creative and technical endeavors nearly a hundred years later. Bravo Molly!

When I was teaching art history and web design at Biola, many of my most engaged students were big fans of the Bauhaus and German avante-garde movements. Not just from a historical design perspective, but also on how they were influencing current design and art theory/criticism, esp. "Clean" Design on the web, and current political Euro Rock (TINC, and the like).

I love to learn of the connections that people make, even more so when it is all the connections between seemingly disparate creative endeavors.