This is a rather urgent issue, particularly as the Baby Boomer generation ages. “At a time when theatre is becoming far more aware of its lack of inclusiveness in relation to gender, race and economic and social privilege, ageism is often left out of the diversity conversation.”
Tag: 03.10.17
An Orchestra That Plays ‘Icestruments’ In An Igloo
There’s an igloo concert hall in Sweden where performers play percussion and string instruments made of ice. Of course, “one of the major problems with conducting an ice orchestra is that the instruments eventually fall out of tune due to body heat from the performers and audience.”
Thanks To Big Data And Photo Analysis, We’re All Going To Lose Any Right To Privacy We Thought We Had
For instance: Several years ago, a small tech company called Jetpac identified and categorized the content of 150 million photos posted publicly on Instagram to build a directory of businesses searchable by their characteristics. If the photos taken at a restaurant showed a lot of mouths wearing lipstick, Jetpac’s app would tag the spot as ‘dressy.’ If most of the faces in a photo of a bar were male, it would tag the spot as a gay bar.”
Was This The First Protein Synthesis Dance?
Possibly. It’s called the “Protein Jive Sutra” and, as you may be able to tell from the name, was created and filmed in 1971, at Stanford. Watch the entire 13-minute film for a lot – a *lot* – more info about the way RNA works (or for the bright leotards and balloons of the 200 volunteers).
Some People Have No Reaction To Music. Nada. Zip. Let’s Try To Understand This…
“Previous research shows that the vast majority of people who enjoy music show an increase in heart rate or skin conductance—where a person’s skin temporarily becomes a conductor of electricity in response to something they find stimulating. Musical anhedonics, however, show no such physiological change to music. A recent study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, took those findings a step further by studying neural responses to music.”
Cool – Robotic Socks That Teach You How To Dance
“We equipped the socks with pressure sensors and vibration motors to monitor and guide the feet movement of the pair dancers. These are controlled by a master application running on an Android phone. The steps are indicated by vibration signals at specific positions of the foot, at the heel for a forward step, etc. When a user makes a mistake or gets out of sync, negative feedback is provided. It is possible to dance in the socks for several minutes without making a mistake.”
How Joe Haj Is Reinvigorating Minneapolis’ Guthrie Theatre
“Building on a foundation laid by his predecessor Joe Dowling — a visionary leader who built the Guthrie’s new home but became somewhat isolated from his staff and the community by the end of his 20-year tenure — Haj is bringing new voices and more resonant programming into the mix. He and his leadership team also are pressing the flesh in the community in ways that have been a pleasant surprise to Twin Cities arts leaders.”
Jeff Koons And Pompidou Convicted Of “Counterfeiting” In French Court
The court ruled that Koons had copied the work of a photographer…
A Couple Of Jazz Guys Sitting Around Talking… (And Then A Sexist Comment Bomb Goes Off)
The many online apologists for Ethan Iverson and Robert Glasper have been dismissing their sexist remarks as the clumsy gestures of good ol’ boys. But inadvertently sexist remarks, like inadvertently racist remarks, can be more telling, because they often point to more fundamental and systemic discrimination. The jazz world has a right — and, some would say, a duty — to criticize speech that promotes sexist culture, whether that speech had a malicious or benign intent.
Andy Warhol Museum Chooses A New Director
Patrick Moore, who has been with the museum since 2011 as its director of development. He takes the place of Eric Shiner, who announced last summer that he would step down from the top spot to take a job at Sotheby’s, a nonprofit-to-for-profit move that is rarely seen in the art world. Moore had been serving as interim director in the intervening time.