All of this is a little off topic in some way, but I also feel is connected. Maybe that part of contemporary means paying attention to current tools and making choices about which ones are right for what you're doing. Not that we all have to be cutting edge internet strategists, but that change is happening, there is an event that we are wrapped in and we have to take account of it.
At the conference I felt like an internet cheerleader, and in some ways I am, but I’m also suspicious and don’t think it saves us in any way - the work still has to be good and rigorous. But it really is doing interesting things to distribution systems. And I don’t know how it’s going to turn out, but it is a change.
How much time are we willing to spend on this? Does it distract from or help the making of the work? Beyond marketing, what can these tools do for the making of the art?And how does live performance (and all artists) deal with the change in power and authority made possible by the internet. (Francis Ford Coppola in 1991 predicts Youtube, and now is on Youtube.)
Thanks to Allyson (Allyson, what's the company site that you mentioned at the panel?) and Ella.
And please add thoughts or further links in the comments section.
Writing / Copyright / Internet
Cory Doctorow
[A name I mentioned a bunch as someone who gives large chunks of their writing away, and has made a career of it.]
– Article about “Artist rights” -
[Includes some very good comments that make the other side of the argument as well.]
Lawrence Lessig – Creator of Creative Commons:
– TED Talks
Clay Shirky: Looking for the Mouse
– And the whole blog is good. I found this after the conference (my friend Tim blogged about it on his blog about making computer game that is actually just a good blog about ideas and creativity)
– If you like video check out Shirky speaking.
– Favorite quote from video “The group gets better together”
Seth Godin.
[Good blog on internet marketing. I'm a little disturbed by my interest in some of this stuff - that one one the things I like about live performance is that it is hard for capitalism to co-opt (just so inefficient.) And yet the good marketers are just talking about how to reach people in an honest way. But then I worry that tools may not be ethically neutral. Thoughts on that?]
RSS Readers
About RSS:
This is the clearest description I could find.
Which News reader? Lifehacker's top 5
Good web sites
Sarma
[It can be a bit tricky to find things, oddly. I’ve found stumbling around to be the way to go - just following curiosity (as in many things.) Here’s some that I’ve bookmarked:]
– Lepeki - The American Tradition
– Jeroen Peeters - Living together on Stage
– Lepeki: The body in difference
– Ramsay Burt - Undoing postmodern dance history
– Springdance conversations
– Other Matters
– Unfolding the Critical
– All of the Critics
[This lists the critics - if you click on the one you want, and then on “texts” you’ll get everything that’s on the site for that author. For example:]
All of Lepeki
All of Myriam van Imschoot
[The letters on dramaturgy are particularly good.]
– Sarma Links
B-chronicles
[I haven’t much all of this (recent find), but it looks exciting.]
Culturebot
[The blog of PS 122 – good links]
Dance-tech
[Just found thing today, but looks like an attempt at some of the things we were talking about]
All for now - please add in the comments
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