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At first, Ebert seemed willing to discuss his opinion. When a reader from Denver asked, “Are you implying that books and film are better mediums, or just better uses of your time?” Ebert responded, “I believe books and films are better mediums, and better uses of my time. But how can I say that when…
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A Brief History of Distortion
A Brief History of Distortion theatlantic: William Weir explores the origins of fuzz, the sound that defined rock n roll: Fifty years ago, a faulty connection in a mixing board gave birth to fuzz, which is a term of art. Although it came to define the sound of rock guitar, fuzz appeared first in neither…
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A Brief History of Distortion
A Brief History of Distortion theatlantic: William Weir explores the origins of fuzz, the sound that defined rock n roll: Fifty years ago, a faulty connection in a mixing board gave birth to fuzz, which is a term of art. Although it came to define the sound of rock guitar, fuzz appeared first in neither…
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Reichardt, curator of the groundbreaking ICA exhibition “Cybernetic Serendipity” in 1968, considered Computer Art to be a movement in her 1971 book The Computer in Art. She compared it with Concrete Poetry in that it was international and motivated by the use of media, technique and method rather than ideology.[1] However, she had to acknowledge…
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Reichardt, curator of the groundbreaking ICA exhibition “Cybernetic Serendipity” in 1968, considered Computer Art to be a movement in her 1971 book The Computer in Art. She compared it with Concrete Poetry in that it was international and motivated by the use of media, technique and method rather than ideology.[1] However, she had to acknowledge…
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Ms. Huffington describes her ambivalence toward the appearance of new media in museums. She writes that museums are our place of departure and imagination, a respite from the rest of the world, and that social media as connection for connection’s sake is, in her words, pointless here. “At their best social media build community and…