Month: October 2009

  • Five Questions With Jennifer Mazza

    Name: Jennifer Mazza Title/Occupation: Artist / Adjunct Professor Organization/Company: Various URL: jenmazza.com 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I was born in Washington D.C., but grew up 50 miles west of the city, in Wheatland, VA. The place is marked by a green and white…

  • BRIC gets Innovation Award

    BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn has been awarded a grant of $200,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation’s New York City Cultural Innovation Fund, which recognizes and supports cultural and artistic innovation and opportunities in New York City. With this grant, BRIC is able to further its mission of nurturing the arts, artists and audiences in Brooklyn and across New…

  • The Young and the Neuro in the NY Times

    From a David Brooks op-ed in the Times: When you go to an academic conference you expect to see some geeks, gravitas and graying professors giving lectures. But the people who showed up at the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society’s conference in Lower Manhattan last weekend were so damned young, hip and attractive. The leading…

  • Harvestworks 2010 Van Lier Residency Deadline Reminder

    Deadline:   Wednesday, November 2, 2009 Applicants should be young artists (generally – but not necessarily – under 30 years old), working in digital media and the electronic arts, whose work would benefit from significant time in Harvestworks’ studios and from expert engineering assistance. Applicants must reside in New York City. The fellowships are open to…

  • PERFORMING REVOLUTION

    From November through March!!! The Performing Revolution in Central and Eastern Europe festival kicks off on November 6.  Presented by The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, in association with leading cultural organizations and academic institutions, the festival examines how the performing arts contributed to the 1989 revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe. The five-month…

  • Ame to Ame at Japan Society

    Culturebot hearts Japan Society! I’ve heard great things about this performance – and this video looks really cool. Check it out! inkBoat/cokaseki Ame to Ame (Candy and Rain) New York Premiere Cutting edge… chic and beautiful and surprising for the audience. —Radio Berlin Brandenburg [lova-Koga and Kaseki are the] Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire of…

  • Five Questions for Tommer Peterson

    Name: Tommer Peterson Title: Deputy Director, Grantmakers in the Arts URL: www.giarts.org 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? Grew up here in Seattle, and after bouncing around a bit, Tuba City, Arizona and Kyoto, Japan, ended up back here, and still like it a lot.…

  • a movie star needs a movie

    don’t miss Jack Ferver’s A Movie Star Needs a Movie Choreographed and Performed by Jack Ferver With Liz Santoro Film and Photography by Jason Akira Somma Breakout choreographer Jack Ferver returns after last year’s sold-out engagement at the New Museum THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15th to premiere a darkly satirical new work about the relationship between shallow…

  • brutal truth – family guy style

    “Middle-aged, alone, and peeing in supermarkets. Man, didn’t see that coming.”

  • Burning Down the Cathedral

    In 1999, Eric S. Raymond published the essay “The Cathedral and the Bazaar” championing open source software development. The essay contrasts two different free software development models, the Cathedral model, where source code is available with each release but the code developed between releases remains restricted, and the Bazaar model where the code is developed…

  • untitled the movie

    i’m looking forward to this. or maybe i’m not. NOTE TO CASTING DIRECTORS: IF ADAM GOLDBERG IS UNAVAILABLE, I’M ALWAYS AVAILABLE AND LOOK REALLY SIMILAR.

  • NAJP Re-Cap

    So I didn’t get picked for the NAJP summit – that’s okay. I encourage you to click on the image below and check out what did get picked. Or just visit http://najp.org/summit/.