Prep School: Elements of Oz

It’s one thing to incorporate cutting-edge technology into art. If you think about it, it’s quite normal. The history of music, to take an easy example, is very much the history of technology – unless you’re improvising with your own voice, a capella, outdoors, you’re most likely leveraging some combination of physical instruments – the core tools for making music, architecture, writing, and, in the last century, electricity, telecommunications, and computing, to make your art.

“I thought, a flag is different than any other form of art. It’s not a painting, it’s not just cloth, it is not a just logo—it functions in so many different ways. I thought that we needed that kind of symbol, that we needed as a people something that everyone instantly understands.”