“Before the lawyers come in, intellectual property issues arise, crowd funding-inspired fraud surfaces, there are artists who regard it as utopian, pure autonomous paradise.”
Tag: 03.10.11
Boston Theatre Company Hopes Free Performances PAy Off Big
Theatre in the Open “hopes that giving up the box office revenue will generate larger audiences, more community involvement, more donations, and more grant money.”
‘Brukup’ Is Back: YouTube Helps Revive Brooklyn-Caribbean Street Dance
“Started in Jamaica in the early ’90s by a street dancer with a broken leg, brukup flourished in Brooklyn’s space-deprived housing projects and had a flirtation with pop culture in 1997 … Instead of fading into obscurity like so many other urban dance crazes (remember the Worm?), it evolved, thanks in part to YouTube videos.”
Julie Taymor Dismissed As Director of Spider-Man
“After nine years of work, Ms. Taymor is stepping aside as director of the most expensive and technically ambitious musical ever on Broadway … [The producers] named a new director to replace her and a script doctor to rewrite the show, as they prepared to overhaul the production during the next three months.”
The Story Of Information – Unlimited Possibilities Or Dystopian Threat?
“The vision of the future as an infinite playground, with an unending sequence of mysteries to be understood by an unending sequence of players exploring an unending supply of information, is a glorious vision for scientists. Scientists find the vision attractive, since it gives them a purpose for their existence and an unending supply of jobs. The vision is less attractive to artists and writers and ordinary people.”