“Shakespeare has at least three tribute accounts, the largest of which, @Wwm_Shakespeare, boasts 158,000 followers. The most popular Oscar Wilde account has upward of 160,000 followers, while Sylvia Plath has nearly 200,000 … There’s a Virginia Woolf bot that tweets quotes in Korean and a Lovecraft bot that tweets in French.”
Tag: 04.02.18
What’s The Best Path To Become A Museum Curator?
To find out, we examined the educational histories of 100 curators who specialize in contemporary art at 69 fine art museums in 32 states. We found that there is no one way to become a curator—although many of the experts we spoke with had strong opinions about what kind of education is most useful.
‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ – How The Extraterrestrial Epic ‘Changed The Very Form Of Cinema’
“As Stanley Kubrick’s monolithic movie celebrates its half century, special effects gurus, directors and those who worked on the film consider its legacy.”
Reckoning With The Wreckage On Reality TV
“The obvious question to bring up here is: Are we complicit? ‘We’ meaning you and me but also, in that awful think-piecey way, standing in for the culture. Sure. I suppose we are complicit. The attention given to sociopaths, and the public pain that results from the potent mixture of attention and sociopathy, exists only because there are reliable consumers who enjoy the cocktail. And then we wait for more of the same, so more of the same is provided.”
Why Do We Need A Disney Princess Who [Blanks]?
“Twitter illustrated the enduring obsession with the latter last week when the ‘We need a Disney princess who’ meme – which ranged from earnest (‘We need a Disney princess who’s vegan and fights for animal liberation’) to bizarre (‘We need a Disney princess who is literally Shia LaBeouf on PCP’) – reached a flashpoint after a regional Planned Parenthood center’s account tweeted, then deleted, ‘We need a Disney princess who’s had an abortion.’ The outrage from the anti-choice right that followed was understandable enough. But what accounts for the internet’s chronic royal fever?”
The Nude Art Created By Artificial Intelligence
AI researcher Robbie Barrat decided to see what would happen when he fed a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) thousands of nude portraits from a dataset and then trained it to create its own bizarre artworks.
Why Is Human Thought So Much More Complex Than Animal Thought? Tools
“The difference is due, [neuro-philosopher Andy Clark] believes, to our heightened ability to incorporate props and tools into our thinking, to use them to think thoughts we could never have otherwise. If we do not see this, he writes, it is only because we are in the grip of a prejudice – ‘that whatever matters about my mind must depend solely on what goes on inside my own biological skin-bag, inside the ancient fortress of skin and skull.'”
The Battle For How We Define Ourselves – The Virtual Versus Physical
“Virtual reality confounds the idea of the ‘mind-body problem,’ the relationship between the conscious mind and physical body that’s remained a staple of the philosophy of mind since Aristotle and Plato. Mind-body dualism dictates that the mental being is “in here” while the physical self is “out there.” But questions of neurobiology make that whole proposition more complicated.”
Meet The People Who Really Keep A Royal Ballet Performance Running: The Stage Managers
Senior stage manager Johanna Adams-Farley and deputy Sarah Woodward talk about their work at Covent Garden, from productions that have been the company has known for ages (“Manon has been in the rep for so long it almost runs itself”) to preparing world premieres.
Prominent Shakespeare Scholar Has Trouble Getting His Work Published
According to Sir Brian Vickers, a major reason he has not yet found a home for his complete edition of works by Thomas Kyd is that his “reputation as a scholar has been damaged by a string of hostile reviews by people associated with the New Oxford Shakespeare”.