This is the second time I’ve ventured down to NYC for Tisch’s Interactive Telecommunications Program Spring show. And again, it was an inspiration.

What’s so unique about this show is how it highlights the importance of art in technology. Not art as in fine arts, though quite a number of the projects display that talent as well, but artistic expression. Many of them gave people creative outlets: the ability to generate poetry, the ability to paint with small movements and the ability to generate visual art and video from your dance moves.

As we try to transmit bigger and bigger ideas, databases aren’t going to matter quite as much. As this show proved, sight and sound can convey millions of nuanced bits of information in a single second, much quicker than the narrative we’re used to.

Check out the projects, here.