Sunday, November 3, 2024
Pre-internet, the lines were pretty clear about the binary relationship between artist and audience. Artists created and audience consumed. In today’s digital world, the landscape is fluid…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:31AMMonday, May 13, 2024
Classical music has lost a generation’s worth of music lovers beginning in the late-90s with the rise of file-sharing and Napster. A significant part of the reason might be: metadata. Meta…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36PMMonday, May 6, 2024
"Content" is a Silicon Valley weasel word that suggests that nothing has any intrinsic worth or quality -- every digital byte is equal and interchangeable -- until it draws attention as meas…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02PMTuesday, April 30, 2024
To an AI model, a picture is data, sound and music are data, as is traditional spoken or written language. That data is translatable, interchangeable, and, most importantly, linkable and act…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24AMSunday, March 31, 2024
What would a strategy for the arts sector be for anticipating artificial intelligence, if consensus seems to be it will change everything?
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06AMWednesday, March 6, 2024
Companies like Netflix, Amazon, Facebook, Spotify, Apple and Google have subsidized what they offer (super-cheap or free content, faster service and better accessibility) to capture audience…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48AMSunday, February 11, 2024
Maestro isn’t really a movie about Leonard Bernstein or his career, or even about music per se. It’s not really a “biopic,” in the traditional Hollywood sense of the word.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06AMFriday, February 2, 2024
We're entering a new age of global communication, and universal translators are only the first step. Avatars and synthetics will be as routine as today's TikTok video filters.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06AMSunday, January 7, 2024
At the moment "how to think about it" may be the most important place to start.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AMWednesday, November 22, 2023
Infinite choice of music in a few clicks sounds like a dream. In reality it can dull your desire and lead to what the social psychologist Barry Schwartz calls the “paradox of choice,” a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:42AMMonday, July 24, 2023
Our consumption of culture has never been higher. So why are culture producers melting down?
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:19AMFriday, November 25, 2022
It might seem like our current information glut is without parallel, but throughout history observers have worried about the impact of too much information on our ability to rationally proce…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12PMSunday, June 26, 2022
How has COVID changed what people want when they decide to put down their screens and go out? We'll explore what Edinburgh thinks it is.
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SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:33PMWednesday, June 8, 2022
Oil prices are at a record high. And profits are rolling in. But there's an intriguing phenomenon in the oil industry called "demand destruction." It means when prices get too high for too l…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:33AMTuesday, May 24, 2022
Is it the subscription model that’s not working or is it the way the arts do subscriptions?
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SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42AMSunday, April 24, 2022
This week's podcast of The UnderTow, ArtsJournal's new weekly podcast, features three stories from the past week. Sometimes stories are not exactly about the things they seem to be about at …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24AMThursday, April 14, 2022
Today we introduce a new podcast -- ArtsJournal's "The UnderTow" - a more or less weekly deeper look at two or three stories from the past week.
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SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PMSaturday, November 6, 2021
There are plenty of strategic reasons to use hybrid content to further artistic goals that don't have to be around making money. But ultimately the model, whatever it is, has to make sense.
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SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:03PMMonday, October 25, 2021
The arts workforce, and those being recruited into it, is changing. "We’ve never had as many openings at one time. And we recognize that in hiring so many positions at once, we have a huge…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12AMFriday, October 22, 2021
Many arts organizations are coming out of the COVID shutdown in better financial shape than they were going in.
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SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03AMTuesday, September 14, 2021
Over the past year, while compiling 150,000 stories in the AJ archives, I realized that this is a unique record of an extraordinary period in our cultural history. Sorry – that sounds gran…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54AMSaturday, August 28, 2021
You might think this is just a journalism issue, but one can draw parallels of paying to read stories to paying for music streaming, which has not proven to "pay off" for the vast majority o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54PMWednesday, June 9, 2021
I was asked to deliver a "provocation" for this week's League of American Orchestras annual conference with the prompt "How has Technology Changed Orchestras Forever?" Here's a video of the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PMMonday, August 24, 2020
We need a significant, stable ongoing source of new funding that is politically insulated and inflation-proof.
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SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:32AMSunday, August 9, 2020
The shutdown has suspended usual rules, positions and behaviors, suggesting there may be opportunities to not just rethink but take action.
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SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:32PMMonday, May 18, 2020
Opera America had asked me to speak at their annual conference this year, but of course the conference was canceled and moved online. So I made this video for the online conference, talking …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54PMFriday, May 1, 2020
So your workplace has shut down (your theatre, concert hall museum, stage, whatever). Now what? Moving online is the obvious play. And in the weeks since lockdown there has been a flood of a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:48PMThursday, April 30, 2020
You can see this as nothing but loss. Or perhaps some of our most intractable debates are now suddenly shaken free of their old moorings.
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SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32PMSunday, December 29, 2019
A few months ago I was at a conference of administrators of large arts institutions when a leading researcher in cultural trends made a bold claim: The election of Donald Trump is a result o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12PMTuesday, October 23, 2018
The tide has turned on the tech revolution. Over the past year the breathless articles that used to accompany new tech innovations have dried up, replaced with dystopian concerns about the D…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:06PMMonday, July 30, 2018
This week Washington Post arts journalists Anne Midgette and Peggy McGlone published results of their six-month investigation of sexual harassment in the classical music business. Some of th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM 
