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• How Your “Digital Twin” Will Change The World

  25-03-2024 23:02 via noemamag.com
  
  In the last decade, thanks to advances in AI, the internet of things, machine learning and sensor technologies, the fantasy of digital twins has taken off. BMW has created a digital twin of a production plant in Bavaria. Boeing is using digital twins to design airplanes. – Noema
  
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• Report: Global Music Business Up 10 Percent In 2023

  25-03-2024 22:29 via musicbusinessworldwide.com
  
  Subscription streaming revenues grew by 11.2% YoY last year, accounting for 48.9% of the global market, which in dollar terms, means that subscription streaming revenues reached $14 billion in 2023. – Music Business Worldwide
  
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• Dumb and dumber

  25-03-2024 22:05 via artsjournal.com
  Hard to believe, but the English National Opera posted a bio of Richard Strauss, in which they said Johann Strauss was his father:
  “Richard Strauss (1864-1949) was one of the most highly acclaimed composers of the 20th century. He was a leading representative of the German school of Romantic composers who set new standards for orchestration and tone colour in opera. But, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, with his father Johann Strauss being a prominent composer in Vienna. It
  
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• Tennessee Is First State To Legislate AI Protections For Musicians

  25-03-2024 21:01 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has signed off on legislation designed to protect songwriters, performers and other music industry professionals against the potential dangers of artificial intelligence. – ABC News
  
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• Why Piano Competitions Need To Address Gender Imbalance

  25-03-2024 20:15 via theguardian.com
  
  “The report contained personal accounts that showed not only that inequality is still pervasive in the world of classical music, but that women are enduring an unacceptable level of sexual abuse and harassment, often being silenced with non-disclosure agreements to protect those in power.” – The Guardian
  
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• Photographs Are No Longer Proof Of Anything

  25-03-2024 19:30 via wired.com
  
  Not only are digital images infinitely malleable, but the tools to manipulate them are as common as dirt. For anyone paying attention, this has been clear for decades. – Wired
  
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• Misty Copeland On Connecting Dance With The World

  25-03-2024 18:44 via axios.com
  You know, housing crisis, gentrification, homelessness, houselessness. And so, to me, it’s, it’s, it’s a ballet. But, you know, we have different, we have contemporary dance and, and hip hop and, Turf dancing, which is the local street dance there in Oakland, California. you know, it’s art activism. – Axios
  
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• AI Is Upending The Foundations Of Copyright Law

  25-03-2024 18:38 via issues.org
  
  Copyright is even embedded in the US Constitution as a tool “to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts.” Now generative AI is destabilizing the foundational concepts of copyright law as it was originally conceived.
  
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• Indiana Law Now Requires University Professors To Promote “Intellectual Diversity”

  25-03-2024 18:02 via artsjournal.com
  A new law in Indiana requires professors in public universities to foster a culture of “intellectual diversity” or face disciplinary actions, including termination for even those with tenure. – The New York Times
  
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• How Curators Chose Art For This Year’s Whitney Bienniale

  25-03-2024 17:15 via gothamist.com
  This year’s event, called “Even Better Than The Real Things,” features 71 artists, whose works include short films, sculpture and abstract painting. – Gothamist
  
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• ‘Selected Catastrophes’ from Sinclair Beiles’s Sacred Fix

  25-03-2024 16:54 via artsjournal.com
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• Physical Activity Is Good For Fitness. It’s Even Better For Creativity

  25-03-2024 16:44 via theguardian.com
  
  Often, when we hear about the benefits of physical activity, researchers are really referring to the benefits of fitness – the product of regular and repeated physical activity. But what’s interesting about creativity is that it appears to be enhanced through the very act of moving the body. – The Guardian
  
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• Martin Scorsese, Perhaps Unsurprisingly, Has Lived A Semi-Secret Life As A VHS Archivist

  25-03-2024 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Truly, this is monumental. “Spanning the 1980s through the 2000s, the Martin Scorsese VHS Tape Collection contains more than 4,400 distinct titles, including features, documentaries, shorts, history programs and award shows.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Spotify, Perhaps Inevitably, Has Added Video Classes

  25-03-2024 15:30 via theverge.com
  
  The video part seems inevitable, anyway. The classes part? It’s for UK users only, and are “video-based lessons from BBC Maestro, Skillshare, Thinkific, and PlayVirtuoso.” That’s because Spotify’s data say that people enjoy education and self-help-based podcasts. – The Verge
  
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• The subtle alchemy of Judy Watson: ‘As an artist there’s things you can’t control – that’s what I love’

  25-03-2024 15:00
  
  Queensland Art Gallery is showing the most expansive survey of the Waanyi artist’s work to date; strikingly beautiful pieces that draw the viewer into dark historyGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailCurator Hetti Perkins once described Judy Watson’s work as a “tender trap”, for its “seductive beauty” and ability to transmit powerful, often painful messages. This is in full evidence at Queensland Art Gallery (QAG), which is showcasing four decades of pra
  
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• Remember All Of Those Books Tossed In The Trash At A Staten Island Elementary School?

  25-03-2024 15:00 via msn.com
  You know, the ones about or by Black people, LGBTQIA people, and so on? Where a note on a book about Native Americans read, “negative slant on white people”? The New York City Department of Education is investigating the school. – MSN (ABC News)
  
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• Isabelle Huppert Is Ready For Her Marvel Villain Stage

  25-03-2024 14:45 via theguardian.com
  
  But now, the French actor is playing Mary, Queen of Scots. “Alone on stage for 90 minutes, she performs something between a rite and an elaborate courtly dance, her stylised, repetitive movements and moments of stillness accompanied by Pinckney’s poetic script casting a spell over her audience.” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• Bach Is Everywhere At Easter

  25-03-2024 14:30 via english.elpais.com
  
  Yes, his various Passions are common right now – but he’s everywhere, all of the time. And “indirectly, we are also indebted to Bach for the ability to attend public concerts.” – El País (English)
  
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• The Woman Behind The Movie

  25-03-2024 14:15 via time.com
  
  Sure, there’s a new Regina King-starring biopic on Netflix, but the real Shirley Chisholm who ran for president “knew the nomination was a longshot, but hoped she could amass enough delegates to force presumptive nominee George McGovern to act in the interest of [her] coalition.” – Time
  
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• When Can Hollywood Get Back To Work?

  25-03-2024 14:00 via msn.com
  The post-strike, post-peak-TV slowdown threatens Calfornia, “where TV, film and commercial shoots are a sizable driver of employment supporting not just bigwig directors, producers and movie stars but also all the below-the-line laborers, craftspeople and myriad ancillary businesses.” – MSN (Los Angeles Times)
  
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• After The Massive Concert Hall Attack In Russia, Some Suspects Plead Guilty

  25-03-2024 13:45 via bostonglobe.com
  
  Meanwhile, “events at cultural institutions were canceled, flags were lowered to half-staff and television entertainment and advertising were suspended,” and relatives waited for word to come about injuries – or death. – Boston Globe (AP)
  
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• Large Language Models Actually Haven’t Improved That Much

  25-03-2024 13:30 via wired.com
  
  It’s all in the measurement, and the tricks therein. – Wired
  
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• Activists Unfurl A Massive Quilt For Gaza On The Steps Of The Met

  25-03-2024 13:15 via hyperallergic.com
  
  “As the quilt was spread out across the museum’s main entrance, activists encircled the display, carrying signs that read ‘We See Genocide,’ ‘Let Gaza Live,’ and ‘None Of Us Are Free Until Palestine Is Free.’ The protesters also broke into Palestinian dabkeh folk dance.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• What’s Going On In Sundance’s Sudden Top-Level Shake-Up?

  25-03-2024 13:00 via latimes.com
  
  The reason for the change is unclear. “During her tenure, [Joana] Vicente brought Robert Redford’s 45-year-old festival in Park City, Utah, back in person following two consecutive years of pandemic shutdowns while also opening it up to larger online audiences.” But the economy – and streaming. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Let’s Talk About The So-Called ‘Social Cost’ Of Those Green Text Bubbles

  25-03-2024 12:45 via wired.com
  
  Sure, Apple is kind of cult-like. But isn’t that a weird problem on which to hang a major antitrust lawsuit? – Wired
  
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• AI Guesses That’s Why They Call It The Blues

  25-03-2024 12:30 via theverge.com
  
  Truly, so-called generative AI isn’t there yet on the composing side. “I’ve played the basic chord progression from ‘Soul Of The Machine’ — and variations of it —countless times. So, when I say that the chords meander in nonsensical ways, it’s because I’ve also wandered in this style.” – The Verge
  
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• Olivia Colman Is Extremely Over The Gender Pay Gap In Hollywood

  25-03-2024 12:15 via variety.com
  
  In one case, the star says, she knows of a 12,000 percent difference in pay. – Variety
  
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• The Chicago Art Institute Reconsiders Its Relationship To Women Artists

  25-03-2024 12:00 via chicago.suntimes.com
  
  The Art Institute’s effort to change “can especially be seen in the museum’s arts of the Americas department, where 33 percent of its acquisitions in 2016-23 were by named women artists — 61 out of 183 objects. That pace is significantly higher than that of the museum world at large.” – Chicago Sun-Times
  
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• Eye in the sky: the photographer who used 20,000 photos to make an epic collage map of Dundee

  25-03-2024 09:00
  
  Sohei Nishino’s vast five-metre-wide work is the centrepiece of a new exhibition at V&A Dundee – and it shows the city like never beforeThe link between photography and the modern city is well established. In the mid-19th century this developing technology was perfectly suited to capture turbo-charged urban growth as it happened, providing a new way of seeing emerging global metropolises.“Photography not only depicted these wholly novel sorts of environments,” sa
  
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