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• Using The Human Brain As A Model For Artificial Intelligence Hasn’t Turned Out (So Far)

  26-05-2020 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What computer scientists and neuroscientists are after is a universal theory of intelligence—a set of principles that holds true both in tissue and in silicon. What they have instead is a muddle of details. Eleven years and $1.3 billion after Henry Markram proposed his simulated brain, it has contributed no fundamental insights to the study of intelligence. – Wired
  
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• How Leadership Is Failing Universities

  26-05-2020 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  How does a university with a $6-billion endowment and $10 billion in assets suddenly find itself in a solvency crisis? How is one of the country’s top research universities reduced, just a month after moving classes online, to freezing its employees’ retirement accounts? – Chronicle of Higher Education
  
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• Arvo Part On What The Pandemic Says To Us

  26-05-2020 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This tiny coronavirus has showed us in a painful way that humanity is a single organism and human existence is possible only in relation to other living beings. The notion of “relationship” should be understood as a maxim, as the ability to love. Although this is truly a high standard, maybe even too high for a human being. Our current situation is paradoxical: on the one hand, it means isolation, on the other, it brings us closer. While isolating ourselves, we should be able
  
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• Cirque du Soleil Founder Wants To Buy It Back To Save It

  26-05-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In 2015, Guy Laliberté sold the Cirque du Soleil to American private equity investment firm TPG Capital, Chinese investment company Fosun and the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec for a reported US$1.5 billion. In late March, the Montreal-based circus laid off 95 per cent of its staff, close to 4,700 employees, after all of its shows around the world were shuttered as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. – Owen Sound Sun Times
  
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• Actor Showcases Go Online – A Push To The Future?

  26-05-2020 21:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Some representatives believe that, even after social distancing measures fade, schools will begin to incorporate video into at least part of their showcase models. On-demand video allows agents and managers to avoid the hassle of attending a live event, to choose the time when they view the showcase, to take meetings with students over a longer period and to see actors who they are considering for television or film projects onscreen. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Italian Museums Reopen: A Survey Of How They’re Doing It

  26-05-2020 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As museums begin to reopen, many are requiring visitors to book tickets in advance, wear masks, use hand sanitizer upon entering or undergo temperature checks, according to Fortune. In Munich, the Bavarian State Painting Collections’ museums are limiting the number of visitors to one person per roughly 215 square feet, reports CNN’s Karina Tsui. At the Giacometti Institute in Paris, meanwhile, just ten people are allowed in every ten minutes, and public bathrooms remain closed. &nda
  
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• Philip Glass’s Lost ‘Music In Eight Parts’ Has Been Recovered

  26-05-2020 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For decades, [the piece] seemed, to Mr. Glass’s circle, to exist only as fragments in his archive. Then the final manuscript for Music in Eight Parts resurfaced near the end of 2017. … Now in the hands of Mr. Glass’s publisher, it has been realized anew for his ensemble and, 50 years after its premiere, released on a recording by Orange Mountain Music this week.” – The New York Times
  
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• Are Patents And Copyrights Slowing Down Innovation?

  26-05-2020 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Whether we’re talking about vaccines or groundbreaking clean energy, lifesaving technologies shouldn’t be treated as precious commodities to be hoarded for private gain. In the midst of global emergencies, they’re public goods to be deployed as rapidly as possible. – The New Republic
  
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• How Did Renaissance Architects Build Church Domes Without Columns? High-Tech Analysis Has Found The Answer

  26-05-2020 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The broad cupolas in Italian churches of the era were constructed by laying bricks in a “complex cross-herringbone spiraling pattern” called a double loxodrome, according to a team of engineering researchers at Princeton and the University of Bergamo. – Artnet
  
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• How to be together again - Paid residency / Deptford X / London / Nationwide

  26-05-2020 18:53
  Deptford X is pleased to offer paid opportunities for 6 artists, writers and/or thinkers to begin developing work or research on the subject of ‘how to be together again’ through six,...
  
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• Label Design Competition Gbp 250 / Deptford X / London / National

  26-05-2020 18:38
  Our lovely sponsors Gospel Green are running a competition to re-design their label for a limited run of bottles that will feature at the next Deptford X Festival. Winner will receive £250...
  
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• Broadway League President Says A January Reopening?

  26-05-2020 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Charlotte St. Martin said that in the last ten weeks Broadway has been losing an average of $35 million a week; this will remain so for however long Broadway remains closed. If this continues to January, that means a total loss of around $1.5 billion—with the sum heading towards $2 billion if the closure continues into next spring. – The Daily Beast
  
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• 2020 Turner Prize Cancelled – £100,000 Prize Will Be Used To Help Artists

  26-05-2020 18:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Gallery closures and social distancing measures are vitally important, but they are also causing huge disruption to the lives and livelihoods of artists. The practicalities of organising a Turner Prize exhibition are impossible in the current circumstances, so we have decided to help support even more artists during this exceptionally difficult time.” The move was broadly welcomed on social media with one contributor calling the initiative a “philanthropic and democratic move
  
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• Pioneering Op Art Painter Richard Anuszkiewicz Dead At 89

  26-05-2020 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[He] devoted his career to studying how some of the fundamental elements of art could be manipulated to create perceptual effects. His experiments with color led him to make paintings of geometric shapes that seem to vibrate and emanate light.” – The New York Times
  
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• PR Freelancer (part-time, freelance) / Clod Ensemble's Performing Medicine / London / Remote working

  26-05-2020 17:56
  Performing Medicine is looking for a PR Freelancer with a strong background in strategic communications and PR within healthcare. They would ideally have good understanding of the ways that the arts...
  
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• Insurance Companies Put Theatres At Risk

  26-05-2020 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Most theatres and show producers have been sold expensive “business interruption” policies to cover closure as a result of events outside their control. But believe it or not, according to the insurers Covid-19 does not count. I repeat, the closure of every theatre in the country by the pandemic does not meet the insurers’ idea of business interruption. – The Times (UK)
  
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• Marketing & Communications Coordinator / Festival 2022 / West Midlands

  26-05-2020 17:07
  Festival 2022 is a major UK-wide festival of creativity and innovation, backed by £120million of new investment.
  The Festival will take place across England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and...
  
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• With Lockdown Lifting, This Country’s Bookstores Are Having A Boom

  26-05-2020 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Booksellers around the country say they’re experiencing ‘Christmas’ levels of demand post-lockdown, as many readers have sworn off shopping offshore following the Covid-19 crisis, which claimed 21 lives in New Zealand.” – The Guardian
  
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• The Dangers And Delights Of Choreographing Over-Familiar Music

  26-05-2020 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Carmina Burana. Bolero. Arvo Pärt’s Spiegel im Spiegel. Even The Rite of Spring. They’re good pieces, they work for dance, and audiences are familiar with them. “Still, many choreographers have been sabotaged by the formidable nature and Muzak-y overuse of these iconic compositions,” writes Joseph Carman, who talks to several choreographers about how they’ve successfully pulled the feat off. – Dance Magazine
  
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• Africa’s First Million-Selling Singer, Mory Kanté, Dead At 70

  26-05-2020 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[He] came from a family of griots, the dynastic West African musicians whose songs carry news and chronicle history. Steeped in those traditions, he electrified the kora, the traditional griot’s harp, and he fused African music with styles and instruments from Western pop. … [His] 1987 single “Yé Ké Yé Ké” was a hit, first in Africa and then across Europe. It became the first African single to sell more than a million copies and has be
  
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• Michael Moore’s ‘Planet Of The Humans’ Yanked From YouTube

  26-05-2020 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The controversial documentary — produced by Moore, directed by Jeff Gibbs, criticized by many mainstream scientists, and championed by parts of the far right — incorporates a clip from the project Rare Earthenware by videographer Toby Smith, who opposes Planet of the Humans and went to YouTube alleging copyright infringement (which gets a video automatically removed). Gibbs and Moore invoked the fair use doctrine and say their work is being censored. – The Guardian
  
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• Mesh: A New Sharing Hub for Artists / Chisenhale Studios / London / Nationwide

  26-05-2020 15:25
  Chisenhale Studios is delighted to launch Mesh, a wiki site that has been initiated by Into the Wild Artist Interpreter Esther McManus and developed with this year’s Into the Wild cohort of...
  
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• Lead for Digital Innovation / Festival 2022 / West Midlands

  26-05-2020 15:04
  Festival 2022 is a major UK-wide festival of creativity and innovation, backed by £120million of new investment. We are currently recruiting the Lead for Digital Innovation to ensure new and...
  
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• How Will Art Schools Reopen In The Fall? In California, They Really Aren’t Sure

  26-05-2020 15:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Hyperallergic reached out to several art schools in California to see how they are planning to address the need for social distancing while maintaining the integrity of their arts curriculums.” The consensus: there’s no telling yet what the rules will be in September, so administrators and faculty are working out multiple scenarios. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Communications Director / Festival 2022 / West Midlands

  26-05-2020 15:01
  Festival 2022 is a major UK-wide festival of creativity and innovation, backed by £120million of new investment. We are currently recruiting for a Communications Director to lead Festival...
  
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• London’s Southbank Centre Says It Must Close Until April 2021 Unless It Gets More State Money

  26-05-2020 14:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The UK’s largest arts and cultural organisation, the Southbank Centre, has warned that it will have used up its financial reserves by September, forcing its closure until April 2021 unless it gets further government support. The centre, which puts on more than 3,500 events every year” and contains three concert halls, an art gallery, and a library “and is home to eight orchestras, revealed details of the crippling financial pressures it is facing as a result of the coro
  
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• Head of Commissioning / Festival 2022 / West Midlands

  26-05-2020 14:30
  Festival 2022 is a major UK-wide festival of creativity and innovation, backed by £120million of new investment. We are currently recruiting for a Head of Commissioning to oversee the...
  
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• Head of Business Integration / Festival 2022 / West Midlands

  26-05-2020 14:27
  Festival 2022 is a major UK-wide festival of creativity and innovation, backed by £120million of new investment. We are currently recruiting for a Head of Business Integration to oversee the...
  
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• Theatre Gym Membership Available / Theatre Gym / London

  26-05-2020 14:16
  Need more creativity in your life?Want to learn new things every week?Want to play with new friends?Want to do all this in lockdown time?
  You can now sign up for a membership and take an acting...
  
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• Salzburg Festival 2020 Will Go Ahead — In Reduced Form

  26-05-2020 14:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Bucking the trend of the vast majority of international festivals and opera companies that have been forced to shutter due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Salzburg Festival announced today that it plans to present a modified festival this summer, with fewer performances in shortened formats taking place from August 1 through 30.” No details of the programming were revealed. – Opera News
  
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• Turner prize cancelled and chosen artists to get £10k bursaries

  26-05-2020 12:09
  
  Tate Britain says timetable to prepare autumn exhibition not achievable during pandemicOrganisers of the Turner prize have cancelled this year’s edition and will instead award 10 bursaries of £10,000 to deserving artists.In a normal year, judges would this month have announced a shortlist for the prize, inviting those artists to make work for an exhibition opening in the autumn. The £25,000 winner would have been revealed in December. Continue reading...
  
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• How long did it take Ulysses to get home? The great British art quiz

  26-05-2020 09:00
  
  Feren’s Art Gallery in Hull set today’s edition of our quiz, which enables you to explore the collections of British galleries closed due to coronavirus – while answering some tricky questionsThis quiz is brought to you in collaboration with Art UK, the online home for the UK’s public art collections, showing art from over 3,000 venues and by 45,000 artists. Each day, a different collection on Art UK will set the questions.Today, our questions are set by Ferens Art Galler
  
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• Dive in: how Slim Aarons art directed the poolside summer

  26-05-2020 08:00
  
  French brand Maje are the latest label to take inspiration from Slim Aarons’ pictures of the jetset on holiday. Glamorous and full of sunshine, they’re welcome escapism right nowIn lockdown, holidays seem like some kind of fantasy - so looking at a Slim Aarons photograph is sort of appropriate. Aarons has, after all, always been about armchair travelling. It never rains in his pictures. They are not of people grinning through the downpour staycations, or of hard-fought sweaty adventu
  
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