Category: Art

There are Artists… and then there are People Who Call Themselves Artists. There are people who do Art without calling themselves an Artist, of course… and there are people who call themselves an Artist without doing capital A Art. Is it enough to just ‘create, create, create’ without, for...

Last night I had a very interesting Zoom discussion with several people who attended and presented papers at the Metamodernism conference in Seattle. After an initial ‘de-brief’ about the conference – what worked, what didn’t (it was a ‘hybrid’ conference, both in-person and online, and we talked about how...

In my previous newsletter I wrote about how I found it difficult to answer the question ‘And what do you do?’ after I stopped working in TV which provided me with an easy answer. My friend Elliot (one of the AWESOMEST people at Chelsea) WhatsApped me and said ‘Just...

We’ve had three conversations. 01.03.2022 started at 11:02 for 48 minutes 08.03.2022 started at 16:57 for 118 minutes 09.03.2022 started at 17:24 for 41 minutes What connects us? We are both interested in thinking about what ‘reality’ is. We see many dangers in social media. It makes people hide...

I remember the interview Jeremy Paxman did with David Bowie in 1999. I was deep into the web at the moment and was constantly trying to convince people that it was very definitely the start of a revolution and not just ‘the 1990s version of CB radio’… Partial transcriptions...

When thinking about metamodernism – what it is, how one recognises it – I wrote down some notes on modernism and postmodernism. Along with thinking of the time spans and a few cultural influences, I wanted to come up with a pithy sentence on each of the eras. This...

A free Yale course, 24 lectures on Dante’s Divine Comedy… I am slowly going through this course. I decided to start watching these lectures because the Divine Comedy came up again in something I read and then I saw a link to this course on Twitter. There are no...

Peter Tscherkassky’s films are amazing. I love his technique (see below) and the result. Outer Space- is made with footage from The Entity (1982) by Sidney J. Furie, starring Barbara Hershey. Christa Blümlinger at Senses of Cinema on Outer Space. LUFF.tv “Peter Tscherkassky gives us a brief userguide of...

This piece has been an ongoing inspiration for several years now- the repetition until destruction and a creation of something new and other-worldly… Wikipedia I am sitting in a room is a sound art piece composed in 1969 and one of composer Alvin Lucier’s best known works. The piece...

We had our first meeting yesterday and I met a few interesting people. Only ‘a few’ because I only got a chance to briefly talk to a few one on one. I’m sure we will have plenty more opportunities to get to know everyone. I need to do a...