Author: timothybraun

  • Fusebox Talks: Daniel Barrow

    In conjunction with the 7th annual Fusebox Festival, a contemporary art and performance festival that takes place in Austin, TX each April, culturebot.org presents Fusebox Talks, a series of interviews and podcasts with the select artists from the festival. The first podcast is with Canada’s Daniel Barrow at the Austin Museum of Art; interviewed by…

  • Fusebox Talks: Action Hero

    In conjunction with the 7th annual Fusebox Festival, a contemporary art and performance festival that takes place in Austin, TX each April, culturebot.org presents Fusebox Talks, a series of interviews and podcasts with the select artists from the festival. The first podcast is with England’s Action Hero at the Austin Museum of Art; interviewed by…

  • Five Questions With The Octopus Project

    Name: The Octopus Project Title/Occupation: Band (…a sort of Tim Burton block party is unfolding) Organization/Company: Peek-a-Boo Records URL: http://www.theoctopusproject.com Note: Questions were primarily answered by Josh Lambert. 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? We all grew up in different parts of Texas (Josh –…

  • A Quintessential Postmortem on SXSW 2010

    The quintessential South by Southwest Festival (SXSW) happening came at the tail end of the festivities on Saturday, March 20th when Joseph Gordon-Levitt hosted and curated an evening of music, film and live performance at the G-Tech Theater located at the Austin Convention Center for hitRecord.org. The music, film and interactive event featured live performances…

  • Five Questions For Stu Campbell

    Name: Stu Campbell Title/Occupation: “…interactive installations… “ Organization/Company: Nawlz URL: http://www.nawlz.com/ 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up on the Northwest coast of Tasmania–the island off the bottom of Australia.  It’s a beautiful place but very isolated, which is probably why I left…

  • Five Questions With Jason Eskenazi

    Name: JASON ESKENAZI Title/Occupation: DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHER Organization/Company: SELF-ORGANIZED URL: jasoneskenazi.com/wonderland.html Note: When I received Eskenazi’s answers to the five questions, they were in all caps. As opposed to editing his response I felt this aspect added a sense of his infectious enthusiasm. Try listing to his Studio 360 interview before reading these replies. The photos…

  • Fusebox Festival 2010 Line-Up (So Far)

    WHEN: April 21- May 1, 2010 WHERE: 10+ venues throughout Austin, TX COST: $130 Passes WEB: www.fuseboxfestival.com “There will probably be a few more additions of note, but this is about 80%.” -Ron Berry, Founder and Artistic Director of Fusebox Festival At the end of the announcement party at east Austin’s Okay Mountain art gallery…

  • Chuck Klosterman Is A Friend Of Mine: A Review of One Chapter In "Eating The Dinosaur"

    I’ve had a love/hate relationship with Chuck Klosterman since 2003 when his book Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifest erupted. I bought this book in the New York City subway and read it in a week worth of A train rides. I felt his comments on “fake love”, The Sims, and the…

  • Outrageous Fortune

    Outrageous Fortune: The Life And Times Of The New American Play by Todd London, with Ben Pesner, and Zannie Giraud Voss, examines the “collaboration in crisis” between the contemporary American playwright and the varied people who fund and produce new work. Published this month by Theatre Development Fund, the study draws on six years of…

  • Five Questions With Alexis Macnab

    Name: Alexis Macnab Title/Occupation: Director-Adaptor, Theater Organization/Company: Infinite Coast URL: http://infinitecoast.org 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up in Evanston, Illinois, which is an idiyic place to raise cultured, liberal, yet still suburban children.  Evanston is a stone’s throw from Chicago so I…

  • Five Questions with Corey Dargel

    Name: Corey Dargel Title/Occupation: composer & singer/songwriter URL: http://automaticheartbreak.com 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I was born and raised in South Texas, the Rio Grande Valley.  It took me a few years to realize that my hometown was the primary cause of my severe…

  • MERGE

    #13.) Is contemporary art too sterile and safe? #5.) Dream up an interesting collaboration. #19.) Why invite an audience? #44.) How do you decide when it’s time to shift from brainstorming about a new work to actually creating something in the studio? #45.) How can we balance creative needs in new work with respect for…