The Pasadena Playhouse announced this past week that the final curtain will fall on Feb 7, 2010. It will cease operations with the closing of the currently running Camelot. The historic theatre represents 90 years of American Theater history and undoubtedly, its closing will be a big symbolic and physical loss to the artistic world [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Arts’
November 9, 2009
How Social Media has changed British Theatre
I’ve been following the development of the National Theatre Wales. They officially launched sometime this month with 13 shows slated for their season. What’s special about them is that their organization is hinged on the use of social media
The Telegraph covered its launched, done entirely on web-cast:
It’s hard to disentangle the medium by which [...]
September 21, 2009
Media/bot/Human Interaction in Theatre
This is an interesting premise: the live interaction of an autonomous vision controlled computer “actor” with a human actor. That’s what 1997 play “It/I” written by Claudio Pinhanez was apparently about. It’s an interesting exploration of AI – Human interaction. It looks intensely cerebral, cold and esoteric, but the intersection of media technology and actor [...]
July 20, 2009
NMP Audrey Wong calls for Arts Groups to dialogue with her
Letter reposted from Arts Community Yahoo Group, sent to list on July 19, 2009:
Dear all,Tomorrow I will be taking my oath of allegiance in Parliament alongside the 8 other NMPs recently appointed. We received our instruments of appointment from the President on Thursday. As I start this new journey, I feel duty-bound to write this [...]
July 14, 2009
Portable Screening Day
Tell me, isn’t this cool?! Portable Screening Day, organized by the The Portable Film Festival:
The Portable Film Festival, now in its third year, is an international festival of film and user created content. It works in the same way as other film festivals – the only difference is that it is delivered completely online and distributed [...]
July 12, 2009
宋冬 @ MOMA NYC
There’s an amazing installation at the MOMA NYC by Beijing based artist 宋冬 Song Dong called 物尽其用 or Waste Not. The breathtaking display of his elderly mother’s entire collection of material possessions (including the wooden frame of the house) covers the entire space of the second floor atrium.
Visitors are invited to walk through clear paths spliced through [...]
June 5, 2009
John Isaac
I’m getting reacquainted with one of my favorite photographers, John Isaac. I had the privilege of interviewing him with M. on our WKRZ show (yeah, a while ago). He was brought in by the Arts House to show some of his works. In a nutshell, he spent 10 years as a UN Photographer between 1978-1998, documenting [...]
March 20, 2009
Yay
Yay! The Hypochondriac has been nominated for Best Ensemble in the 2009 Life! Theatre Awards!
March 11, 2009
A place…
Theatre becomes a place where we can recognize ourselves, be ourselves, perform ourselves, seemingly apart from the oppressive gaze of the dominant-though I know this “safe space” is always provisional, always partial. – Dorinne Kondo, in Performing Race in Fashion and Theatre About Face
Disclaimer: this entry may manifest itself in other shapes and forms as [...]
February 24, 2009
Home publishing
I remember in college one of my friends started her own magazine. It was a valiant effort that eventually ended with her selling it off for a couple of hundred dollars within 1 year. This was in the early 2000s. Imagine if she had this service, magcloud.com how much easier that might have been. The [...]
