(My thanks to Jean Cook of the Future of Music Coalition and Fractured Atlas’s Adam Huttler for their contributions to this piece.)
We hear a lot of talk about the coming leadership transition in the arts. Baby Boomers are nearing retirement age, and Gen X’ers and Millennials are itching to take on increased responsibility. It’s important [...]
I was in DC yesterday for a presentation/discussion of the NEA’s 2008 Survey on Public Participation in the Arts. The report is accessible and worth a quick read, but I can summarize its findings in one sentence: public participation in the arts is seriously in decline. This is true across essentially all audience demographics and [...]
Set aside all the stereotypes that you have about opera, including that it’s three-plus hours of passive listening. New York City’s Underworld Productions creates operas that speak to 21st-century audiences and demystifies opera so that all may enjoy it. Among the ensemble’s aims are the elimination of opera’s “trial by length” and the dissolution of the separation between cast and audience.
In only the last week I’ve heard about several innovative ways that musicians are using the internet to not only connect with one another, but to collaborate and produce finished pieces of music despite limitations of distance, time and physical space. Good ideas are meant for sharing…
A few weeks ago I was in Pittsburgh for the Technology in the Arts Conference. Presumably because I was both a presenter and a member of the conference steering committee, they decided to interview me for the official podcast. If you’ve got an interest in the subject matter, it might be worth a listen. I’m [...]
Several of us from Fractured Atlas will be at the Technology in the Arts Conference this week(end) in Pittsburgh. FA Managing Director Arwen Lowbridge and I will be doing a presentation called “The End of Data Entry: Liberate Your Organization through Automation and Integration”, while Director of Member Services Adam Natale will be teaming with [...]
Check out Add-Art. It’s an extension for the Firefox web browser (which if you aren’t using, you should be) that replaces most web advertising with images of contemporary art. Here’s how the project is described on its site:
Add-Art is a Firefox extension which replaces advertising images on web pages with art images from a curated [...]
I spent the first half of this week at the Fortune Tech Conference. Usually when I go to events like this they’re totally arts-centric, so it was (mostly) refreshing to be surrounded by folks with a completely different perspective. (Note to Andrew Taylor: thanks to everyone’s obsession with VC-funding and industry gossip, this [...]
For years now I’ve suspected that some of the summer blockbusters produced by the Hollywood machine were secretly written by computers. The scripts are so formulaic, the characters so transparently designed to appeal to target demographics, that it’s hard to believe any self-respecting screenwriter could be so cynical and calculating.
In the meantime, a business [...]
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