Microfunding For Art Comes of Age – Part 1

The Dirty M**** Word 12 February 2010 | 0 Comments

DIY filmmakers have always inherently understood the idea of microfunding, because in some sense or another, raising a few hundred or thousand from friends and family IS essentially the same idea. And now, with social media providing the kind of community reach that would have been impossible even ten years ago, this model has become [...]

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Picasso, The Original 3D Master?

Futurist Musings on The Fly 5 January 2010 | 0 Comments

After all the hoopla about the 3D in James Cameron’s Avatar, and then this week at CES with all the talk about 3D Television, I thought we might take a little walk down the modern art aisle whilst browsing for entertainment. Not as schmaltzy as Avatar, and definitely heavier than most TV programming, Picasso’s Guernica.
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Fritz Lang’s Metropolis = Dubai?

Futurist Musings on The Fly 23 December 2009 | 0 Comments

I recently saw Fritz Lang’s 1927 film Metropolis – a masterwork of the German Expressionist period summarized here by Kino Video after its recent full-length re-release: ”Metropolis takes place in 2026, when the populace is divided between workers who must live in the dark underground and the rich who enjoy a futuristic city of splendor. The tense balance of [...]

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Think Videogames are Puerile? Meet Jenova Chen’s FLOWER

Interactive Experiences 16 December 2009 | 0 Comments

This is a PS3 game. Not a piece of installation art. That’s all I’ll say for now. Ponder that while I go buy a Sony Playstation. Seriously though, I’m curious – really curious. So consider this Part 1. In Part 2, I’ll discuss what this could mean in the wider space of media art [...]

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Zoe Beloff & The Art of Dream-telling

storytelling 14 December 2009 | 1 Comment

This is an amateur movie made by a member of the The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society in 1947. Strange, you may think, as it seemed to me when I first watched this one of several films created by members of this Society as a way to analyze their dreams.
Initially, The Lion Dream struck me as [...]

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In the Transmedia Trenches: A Conversation with Mike Monello

storytelling 8 December 2009 | 0 Comments

At the FOE4 Conference, I was struck by something Mike Monello said on when speaking on a panel. He said something I had never thought of quite that way before: that as a Transmedia creator, one’s role becomes that of a creator/performer – not in the sense that the storyteller is acting per se, but [...]

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Emotions + Algorithms = Stories

Social Media and Art 12 November 2009 | 1 Comment

With the popularity of Twitter, Facebook status updates, one expects to see all manner of ideas useful and useless, swirling around these platforms and vying for our attention. so it was no surprise when Mashable ran a piece last month on Twitter Art.  The ideas tend to revolve around the age-old putting visuals-to-text using — what [...]

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Does VC Funding for an Art Gallery spell the end of “High Art”?

The Dirty M**** Word 23 October 2009 | 0 Comments

I was struck by this article in today’s New York Times about 20×200 New York gallery owner Jen Bekman’s online venture. As the piece points out, the world of “high art” may be the last holdout in the broad world of art/media/design/film shift into the online space. It must appear profitable if investors are willing [...]

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