When we shift time and space by perceiving ourselves elsewhere, we’ve transformed our physical lives into something that still doesn’t have an adequate description. Life mediated through screens is life lived some outside of the world.
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Special Announcement: NAVIGATING THE CURVE -- Now Showing!
A new documentary about life under the corona virus captures voices from around the country with stories of resilience, creativity, and resolve. Called “Navigating the Curve”, the film showcases fresh perspectives on the emerging crisis with intimate first-person accounts of life suddenly and unexpectedly transformed. The 44-minute production appears online. (URL HERE)
Read MoreTHE SURVIVAL INVENTION
How did those who came before manage to endure? We retell and retell and retell, the stories preserving information as much has they preserve motivation.
Read MoreLove in the Time of Corona
I’ve also got a journalistic gene. It goes to the bone and runs in the family. That’s why the travails of our collective current circumstances compel me to action as much as they infiltrate my concentration.
Read MoreCULTURE CRITICS? DO WE STILL CARE?
THE CHALLENGE OF ART IN INTENSELY POLITICAL TIMES
It’s a terrific development in human history that so many people should have the means and mechanisms to create images and sounds and words, but the dilution of importance for the best of those creations threatens the value and continuity of the whole enterprise.
Read MoreBANDERSNATCH
Bandersnatch asks us to question our own autonomy, much like the main character himself questions how and why things are happening to him in the film based on inputs from viewers, the unseen puppet masters.
Read MoreKICKIN’ IT OLD SCHOOL
When there’s no direct reliance on trust, powers of creative perception change. Obligation provokes sensitivity, and sensitivity inspires creative insight.
Read MoreMANIPULATION
To develop creative work is to manipulate. The creative process has less to do with quantification than it does with intuition. To be creative is to feel something rather than calculate something, and feelings are always subject to change.
Read MoreART IN A TIME OF CHAOS
What could art possibly mean to a global population that spends most of its days eking out meager livings on the rough streets of Bangalore, Dar es Salaam, or Medellin? What does art possibly mean to the people who spend their days pouring over spreadsheets working to score points with the House Appropriations Committee?
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