Culture

The Passions of Jeffrey Deitch

SMAC visits Deitch Projects and runs into twins.

Building the Broadband Economy - ICF 2008

Video: The Intelligent Community forum attracts a worldwide audience, interested in creating sustainable communities from the bottom up.

Swoon Brings Juarez to Chelsea

Disappearance and murder has plagued the Mexican border city of Juarez. The artist Swoon brings one of those deaths to New York.

Mental Squatting: The Fight Over Content and its Manipulation

Major League Baseball lost its bid to control historical fact in the public marketplace. It’s merely a blip in a much larger battle.

A chat with Kurt Andersen

The best-selling author and Studio 360 host talks about the pros and cons of the digital age, what the future may hold for print publications and the dawn of “e-books.”

 
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Big Buck Bunny, and Then Some

Blender, the Open Source 3D animation foundation, releases a decidedly furry demonstration that their software is ready for the professional stage.

Flickaliscious: Writing’s the thing that makes it all go round

I just received an email from Celtx about their new 1.0 version of their open source screenwriting/ project management/ production coordination application - a film maker’s swiss army multimedia pre production tool that seems to address a lot of needs for you - the media maker - to author, visualize, and coordinate a […]

All Your Cameras Belong to Us

Band needs music video. Band has no money to make video. Band gets clever idea and performs in front of surveillance cams.

Loving the Gadgety Goodness

Drew Ravani reflects on the cameras, software and gear he came across at NAB 2008… and yes, there’s a video library chock full of interviews too.

Hermann Nitsch in America

 
The Slought Foundation has recently published “Blood Orgies: Hermann Nitsch in America,” a book, which examines the work of the Austrian performance artist from American perspective.
To launch the publication, the editor Aaron Levy interviewed Hermann Nitsch at Austrian Cultural Forum in New York.
Hermann Nitsch (born 1938) is an Austrian performance artist and a forerunner of […]