What Are The Big Ideas?

While we get organized here and raise the money to rebuild the site and pursue the next year’s projects, as an interim measure we’ve decided to publish a “table of contents” of some of the major essays we’ve generated and documentation of events. While we’ve accumulated many, many essays since we launched, these writings form the foundational literature for The Citizen Critic Project. We plan to update this regularly as the ideas evolve and take shape.

CRITICISM IN THE 21st CENTURY

Re-Framing the Critic for the 21st Century: Dramaturg, Advocacy & Engagement

Culturebot and the New, New Criticism

Dance Criticism And The Changing World (or, the difference between reviewing and criticism)

CULTUREBOT EVENTS AND PROJECTS (CRITICAL HORIZONTALISM IN ACTION)

CULTUREBOT’s “Ephemeral Evidence” exhibit at Exit Art Gallery

CULTUREBOT’s “Ephemeral Evidence” exhibit at Exit Art Gallery (Wrap-Up)

Culturebot at Fusebox (2012)

Culturebot at Fusebox 2012 (wrap-up)

CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE, VISUAL ART PERFORMANCE and DANCE IN THE MUSEUM

Visual Art Performance vs. Contemporary Performance: Responding to Performa

Some Thoughts On Attention, Language and Demand

On Social Practice and Performance

Panel As Performance: Deconstructing the Performa Event (The Economics of Ephemerality Essay Series, Part I)

On Curatorial Practice and Cultural Production (The Economics of Ephemerality Essay Series, Part II)

The Economics of Ephemerality (The Economics of Ephemerality Essay Series, Part III)

“The Economics of Ephemerality, Part IV” is forthcoming

THE POLITICS OF CULTURAL PRODUCTION

The Politics of Cultural Production in Theater (Part I)

Parts 2 and 3 are forthcoming

ART IN THE DIGITAL AGE

Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction and Distribution

ECONOMY/FUNDING

Why Aren’t Audiences Stupid? (Jeremy Responds to Michael Kaiser’s HuffPo Essay)

Why Aren’t Audiences Stupid? (Andy Responds to Michael Kaiser’s HuffPo Essay

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  1. […] Launched in 2003 by founder Andrew Horwitz as a blog for Performance Space 122 and operating independently since 2007, Culturebot.org is a platform for discourse on and inspired by contemporary performing arts. Since its founding Culturebot has become a significant voice in the arts, taking as its mission the idea of critical horizontalism, a framework for arts engagement that proposes criticism as creative practice, reassesses spectatorship and engages with artists’ process over time. Culturebot pursues its mission online, through live events and special projects across platforms.  For links to some the seminal essays that inform our current efforts, please see “What’s The Big Idea“. […]

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