Given our emphasis in this module on the future of arts & culture (work), I direct you to a thoughtful and wide-ranging post by Dave Allen (formerly of music groups Gang of Four & Shriekback, now of ‘brand agency’… Continue Reading
Just ran across this post on the Technology in the Arts blog (well worth following…) about a new “arts participation” endeavor anchored in Australia. The effort is called “What Makes Me” and can be found here. It’s an ambitious… Continue Reading
Digital_and_Media_Literacy_A_Plan_of_Actionn will be of interest to you given our conversation in class yesterday on technology and access. What I admire about this report is the emphasis on connecting with “formal and informal education settings through community education movement.”
Following up on our lively discussion last class session, I present a post from the State of the Art blog written by James Undercofler. In this post, he discusses the recent NEA survey of public participation in the arts (available… Continue Reading
Today I got an email about this Kickstarter-like microfunding initiative: Microfundo. The effort is connected to Mondomix (formerly known as Calabash), an iTunes-ish site dedicated to “world music” that bills itself as distributing “fair trade” mp3s. I’m not sure that… Continue Reading
Doug send me a link to this editorial over at the Rhizome site the other day, and I just got around to reading it. Based on a comment by author Kenneth Goldsmith, the writer of the editorial (Greg J. Smith)… Continue Reading