Jon Hassel and Brian Eno (A call for a new pleasure principle)
August 28, 2011 by SarahKornfeld
Filed under art and technology, Futurism, installations, Music, Social Media, World Music, writers
I typed in “New Forms” + “World Music” and suddenly Google provided me Jon Hassel on a plate. Turns out he’s a great trumpet player who’s defined: “Fourth Wall“. Plus, he likes to talk about masturbation. He had my attention, immediately. Then, the lovely machine of the Internet provided the most curious thing: an interview from [...]
A.M. Hoch: Portrait of a Young Boat
July 9, 2011 by SarahKornfeld
Filed under art and technology, curation, installations, Social Media, women
This is a picture of my friend and cohort A.M. Hoch. It’s from a rally this year in Bologna, Italy where people took to the streets in protest of the representation of women in the Italian Media. We may find the sexy, luscious images we see from runways and fashion magazine’s as elegant, but Italian people are bombarded [...]
BLUEMiND/ Or, the Earth of Sarah Sze
June 30, 2011 by SarahKornfeld
Filed under art and technology, curation, environment, Futurism, installations, neuroscience, Ocean, plastic pollution, women
What I learned from BLUEMiND: our brains/hearts are in the details, and the artist, Sarah Sze had already shown to me years ago. Her work below fires with sensors, light, and the making of the bluemind. Image: http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/19444/sarah-sze/ But, let’s start with this June @ BLUEMiND [...]
Purple Me
June 13, 2011 by SarahKornfeld
Filed under art and technology, Music, poetry, religion
I’ve been doing a ton of writing about Blue. BLUEMiND that is (http://mindandocean.org) But, this time, it’s all purple. ‘Cause, I’m just ITCHING to write about the Prince show. A few weeks ago, Prince decided to call upon Oakland and we all had a chance to pray before the great one. I mean it, he [...]
Trouble the Waters…With Love
May 25, 2011 by SarahKornfeld
Filed under art and technology, dance, environment, Futurism, neuroscience, Ocean, religion
Water has always been the place of revolutions: from the story of Moses and a toe parting that crazed sea, to ocean gods and their mad wars with the tides, to our own, deep need to change our lives when we find ourselves in the presence of water. Oceans, rivers, creeks and small fountains are [...]