“A pilot programme testing the impact of matched crowdfunding is doubling the amount of funding that successful projects can receive.”
Tag: 03.17.17
Is Our Reality Real? (Or Only The Reality We Create?)
“In the room we have a whirlwind of physical states. This whirlwind contains a lot more than a human being could ever perceive—atoms, neutrinos, photons, quarks, strings, quantum fields; a huge range of possibilities. When the body comes into the room, its sensory capacities carve out one possible subset of that whirlwind. Or, looked at the other way round, one possible set within the whirlwind finds, relative to the body, a suitable causal path along which to roll. So the table and the apple are born! My body brought them into existence in the sense that it selected them and only them from the whirlwind. Entirely ignoring all kinds of other stuff.”
There Have Been Many Literary Hoaxes, But Only One Led To A Duel With Pistols
Eric Grundhauser tells the story of “Cherubina de Gabriak” of St. Petersburg and the two great Russian Symbolist poets who fell in love with her, even though she didn’t exist.
At This Point, Tech Start-Ups Are Basically Conceptual Art
Damien Hirst turned himself into a high-value business (with Charles Saatchi as his venture-capitalist backer), argues Ian Bogost, and collateralized debt obligations and credit default swaps play with form and procedure every bit as much as a work by, say, Yoko Ono. These days there are young tech companies whose ideas seem more conceptual art than practical idea.
The Worries About Violent Video Games Are Basically A Moral Panic
“For a while, the only time you’d ever see a psychologist comment publicly about video games was in the context of blaming violent ones for all manner of societal ills – most famously, for school shootings.” Now a pair of psychologists is arguing that such blame is – well, not quite as ridiculous as “reefer madness,” but …
A Look Inside Disney’s Massively Lucrative Remake Factory
“We thought if Iron Man and Thor and Captain America are Marvel superheroes,” Disney chief of motion picture production Sean Bailey tells Drew Taylor, “then maybe Alice, Cinderella, Mowgli, and Belle are our superheroes, and Cruella and Maleficent are our supervillains.”
A TV Comedy About Ballet That Actually Works
“A new series is giving us hope that it is possible to make ballet content that is both entertaining and true to what the dance world is actually like.” Lauren Wingenroth introduces us to Off Kilter. (includes video clips)
Miami Beach’s Bass Museum Schedules Reopening (For The Third Time)
“The third time’s the charm. Following two postponements caused by construction delays, Miami Beach’s city-owned Bass art museum has announced its October 2017 reopening following a $12 million renovation project.”
A Political Whitney Biennial? Sure, But Not In A Partisan Way…
Reviewers have criticized past biennials for being too politicized and ideological. Director Adam Weinberg says that the biennial isn’t meant to lean left or right. The goal is to find “voices that really get very close to the bone of American culture…from an aesthetic point of view,” he says, “and also from a larger, cultural point of view.” He adds, “The exhibition is not a finger wagging, and it’s in no way trying to be hectoring or lecturing.”
Pulling Back The Veil On Streaming Music’s Payment Systems For ‘Exclusives’
What’s it worth to Apple to have a two-week exclusive with a young, famous musician? Well, about half a million dollars. Chance the Rapper, who revealed that info about his “Coloring Book,” wrote, “I think artist can gain a lot from the streaming wars as long as they remain in control of their own product.”