In this episode, we discuss recent developments in neuroscientific research on dance and creative movement. A transcript is available on the NEA website.
I see somewhere that the Prez-Elect is hawking guitars, his latest grift. (No indication of where they're made.) So how about shoelaces? Very strong. Easily knotted. Made in China. Only 2 cents each, pre-tariff.
Scholars and specialists addressed ethical and political considerations surrounding AI in collaborations with human creators. Topics ranged from AI aesthetics to the early history of machine learning, from multimedia art to computational research experiments with artificial intelligence, including AI biases and applications.
Hubert Massey, public artist and fresco muralist at the Marygrove Conservancy, shares his creative process of creating extraordinary art that transforms public spaces.
These drawings, which appear in "di Umbria," a dossier of Gerard Bellaart drawings just published by Moloko, were not intended as commentary on current events. But I can't shake the sensation that they are.
When I was a child we had some really old Peanuts paperbacks, now long lost, and for reasons unknown – some spirit knew I would end up in cultural policy? – this one stuck in my head, practically verbatim. Anyway, from April 6, 1958, thank you Mr. Schulz.
The Bible gave us the Ten Commandments. The Constitution gave us the first 10 amendments, our Bill of Rights. Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave us the 'Four Freedoms,' chiseled in stone at the tip of Roosevelt Island as a monumental reminder of his legacy. Will the monument be all that's left of his legacy?
Jérémy Jolley, Senior Director of Education & Community Engagement at the Seattle Symphony, shares how providing access to performance space impacts their partners and community.
Pre-internet, the lines were pretty clear about the binary relationship between artist and audience. Artists created and audience consumed. In today’s digital world, the landscape is fluid—we create and express our identities by what we choose to share online. Sharing, or curating what we encounter both online and in the real world, is perceived as a creative act. In the online world, art doesn’t become activated until people decide to “do” something measurable with it.
Sally Blandón, Early Childhood and General Music Program Director at the Merit School of Music, shares the impact of their Music For All approach to programming.
