The TV channel Current is trying to be an interactive experience. “The Internet is a welcome breath of fresh air which re-establishes a highly interactive participatory medium that has even lower barriers to entry than the print medium. A growing number of talented young people in their 20s…have videocameras and laptop editing systems and are increasingly conversant with how to express themselves in the television medium.”
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Giving A Damn About Dance
So what makes a lively dance “scene,” asks Lane Czaplinski. “I find it ironic that while we (people who care about dance) are always quick to site the problems in the field–a lack of resources, waning attendance, regurgitated aesthetics, etc.–that we are also quick to take offense at precisely the kind of provocative writing that can get people to give a damn. If there is any threat to the dance field, it is that not enough people care about it. Perhaps this is because people read too much puffy marketing rhetoric and too many namby-pamby reviews that do nothing to enliven one’s engagement with the form.”
Study: Violent Video Games Affect Response To Real Violence
Researchers “have found that people who play violent video games show diminished brain responses to images of real-life violence, such as gun attacks, but not to other emotionally disturbing pictures, such as those of dead animals, or sick children. And the reduction in response is correlated with aggressive behaviour.”
Italians To Help Rebuild Iran Museum
A group of Italian experts has undertaken to refurbish Iran National Museum as part of Italy’s program to develop cultural and economic cooperation.
The New Art: Everything And The Kitchen Sink
“Whether you call it the New Cacophony or the Old Cacophony, Agglomerationism, Disorientationism, the Anti Dia, or just a raging bile duct, the practice of mounting sprawling, often infinitely organized, jam-packed carnivalesque installations is making more and more galleries and museums feel like department stores, junkyards, and disaster films. It is an architecture of no architecture, a gesamtkunstwerk or “total artwork,” whose roots are in opera, Dada, the Merzbau, and the madhouse.”
Brokeback Leads Golden Globe Nominations
Cowboy romance Brokeback Mountain gets seven Golden Globe nominations, including best dramatic picture and honors for actor Heath Ledger. Other Best Picture nominees include: “The Constant Gardener,” the Edward R. Murrow tale “Good Night, and Good Luck,” the mobster story “A History of Violence” and “Match Point,” a drama about infidelity.
Rome Series Too Raunchy For Italian TV
“Italian TV is cutting several scenes from the controversial BBC series Rome because they are too sexy and violent.”
A Scottish Music Renaissance?
The British Composer Awards have a healthy representation of Scottish composers this year. “In classical music, new works have never had mainstream appeal, but are audiences missing out on a Scottish renaissance?”
American Cable Companies To Offer “Family” Packages
“Under pressure from the government, the nation’s two largest cable companies and several others announced Monday a plan to offer packages of family-friendly channels to give parents another option to shield children from sex, rough language and violence.”
Ten-Year-Old Wins A Book Deal
A ten-year-old girl’s book about surviving her parents’ divorce has been picked up by a publisher. “When her mother and father separated three and a half years ago Libby Rees wrote a list of the things that helped her make sense of what was going on. The result was a 60-page book called Help, Hope and Happiness, published by Aultbea Publishing based in Inverness.”