Communication is paramount, and what medium or what format you utilize should be a non-issue. In some respects, that has created a barrier for new media, especially web new media, because often times maybe the media itself comes before the concept, before the ideas, and ends up navigating or dictating the outcome.

— Doug Aitken

My office has two buildings that function like the right and left sides of the brain. There's a room where everything is being edited for an upcoming project, but you can pull out of that into a tranquil space to work in a different, more solitary medium. It's an architectural unfolding of the process instead of just one chaotic structure.

— Doug Aitken

'Station to Station' came out of a sense of urgency - a sense that culture, be it art, film or architecture, has become so compartmentalized. For this project, we wanted to break that and create a language that is more nomadic and less materialistic and really empowering for the creators and the audience.

— Doug Aitken

The 20th century is a period defined by cultural and artistic movements. However, the 21st century creative-scale that we occupy now doesn't really have movements in the same way. Instead, it's made up of diverse individuals working across various platforms simultaneously; art, architecture, film, music and literature.

— Doug Aitken

The perfect pop song is a 20th-century creation; it's not a sonnet, it's not an opera, it's something short - three and a half minutes by nature - and has this ability to travel and to defy class and economic structures.

— Doug Aitken

We're moving into an era when things are dematerialized and much more holographic. Floating above the physical world and the geographic map, there's another landscape that's constantly changing - something like a cloud - of communication, information, exchange and commerce.

— Doug Aitken