“The difference in data collection priorities is not simply a qualitative versus quantitative debate, as one of the shared areas of interest for organisers and funders is whether the event has reached individuals who do not normally engage with culture. But even here, opinions differ on how much information is needed from visitors, sample size and how it should be collected (the data collection mechanisms used).”
Author: Douglas McLennan
The Dearly Departed, Digitally Remastered So You Can Be With Them Forever
It’s possible. We capture enough of our loved ones digitally that recreating a version of them is within reach. “A digital bereavement company has captured and analysed torrents of data about your husband to create a digital likeness. His voice, his gait, his idiosyncrasies and mannerisms, the undulations of his laugh – all are replicated with near-perfect similitude. Spending time with your digitally reborn spouse has become a part of your daily routine.”
50,000 Chinese Break Record For Simultaneous Coordinated Dancing
Did you even know there was a Guinness record for such a thing? “A video of the Sunday event shows a total 50,085 people performing a dance routine at the same time in cities including Shanghai, Xi’an, Zhengzhou, Chongqing and Shenzhen.”
Classics Are Being Re-Translated. But Are These New Translations Really Serving The Originals?
“In Italy, with the lapse of copyright on Faulkner’s writing, there have been a number of new Faulkner translations that are doubtless more semantically accurate than those made back in the Forties and Fifties. And yet those old translations—made when a modernist work was still a matter of excitement, rather than an aesthetic museum piece—seem more aware of the energy and spirit of the original and certainly a better read than more recent, academic efforts.”
Guns Onstage – How Theatre Handles Firearms And What We Might Learn From It
“It is unlikely that the country will turn to the performing arts to guide its gun policy, but it could do a lot worse. The stage and screen are the places where the balance of freedom of expression and scrupulous attention to safety have been achieved. If only this were true on our streets and college campuses.”
Why Movie Romantic Comedies Are A Problematic Genre
“The common knock against rom-coms—besides their being too often glibly hetero-normative and horrendously lacking in diversity and ironically ambivalent about the women who generally watch them—is that they are fantasies, in the worst way as well as the best.”
How Scientists See History – Is It Random or Governed By Natural Laws?
“Do we see regularities in the unfolding of the past, or is history all disorganised confusion – just ‘one damn thing after another’? Are there laws that control the unfolding of history?”
What Would Happen If You Made Millions Of £ Available To Arts Groups For Entrepreneurial Projects?
Nearly 100 organisations have applied to the £7m Arts Impact Fund to invest in commercial ventures such as cinemas, restaurants and Intellectual Property licensing businesses to subsidise their work. Thus far, more than £3m of unsecured loan finance at affordable interest rates has been shared by eight organisations that are planning to use a cross subsidy model to finance their activities.
London Theatre Building A New Home Wants To Give Away Its Old Theatre
It’s a 240-seat venue and it’s dismantleable. “It’s going to cost somebody a bit to move it but it’s a very good opportunity for a new company or a school, or somebody like that, provided they’ve got a suitable space to put it in,”
Media Exec Comes Up With Provocative Proposal To Fund Canadian Content (In Canada)
“His plan would fold Telefilm Canada (which invests in film) and the Canadian Media Fund (which supports TV and some digital) into a single new agency that would rely solely on tax credits to encourage the production of any Canadian content. If a Canadian online service wanted to produce a series, it wouldn’t need a broadcasting partner to trigger funding; if a newspaper wanted tax credits for the Canadian articles it published, it would be eligible.”