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'What you do as an artist is crucial. Do not abandon that for a desire to serve a kind of utilitarian purpose of ‘I'm gonna make sure people know more’. The faith in knowing more is the siren song of our society that constantly sees us leaping off of the vessel that can carry us through this, with this belief that we can suddenly transform society because we can provide information. Decorating climate policy with the arts is not transformative. What you know how to do as an artist is so fundamentally important.' David Maggs defines his work as an attempt to integrate the core capacities of the arts with larger social challenges, sustainability, health, social justice, community development, etc. David grew up in Corner Brook, Newfoundland and spent much of his developmental years as a classical pianist. In 2002, he founded Gros Morne Summer Music (now Camber Arts) and continues to be active in cultural production and cultural theory. My first conversation with David was https://lnkd.in/gr4p9Gwh recorded during an outdoors COVID era walk on March 25, 2021 in Vancouver. We talked about artistic capacity, sustainability, value propositions, disruption and recovery, including his Art and the World After This paper for Metcalf Foundation. Since then David has become Metcalf Foundation Fellow on Arts and Society, where he nurtures and supports the desire in Canada’s arts sector to both move with, and shape ongoing patterns of transformative societal change. David and I were co-founders of SCALE-LeSAUT along with Anjali Appadurai, Anthony Garoufalis-Auger, Kendra Fanconi, Judi Pearl and Robin Sokoloski of Mass Culture / Mobilisation culturelle in 2021 and have been corresponding ever since, including my March 16, 2024 posting on a calm presence david maggs’ art and the climate crisis. Our second conversation focused on being and transformation. For example : 'My argument is that we are intuiting the ability of art to work at the level of being, to engage with transformative change. But what happens is we live in a culture that is so structured around problem solving at the level of information and knowledge that as soon as we think, OK, yes. course art has something really important to do with this, then, immediately, instead of allowing the arts to pull climate discourse into the realm of being, climate discourse pulls art into the realm of knowing. And it becomes a tool for knowing rather than something that allows us to start to engage with ourselves at the level of being.' David also talks about the cultural gap in the climate crisis which he defines as ‘the difference between the imperative of transformation at the level of being and a particular society's capacity to do so. Ours is really low.’ David’s recommended reading is the work of Richard Powers and Don McKay’s Vis à vis. #culture #arts #climatechange

This is an excellent article on the many challenges of Large Venue Acoustics: https://lnkd.in/gSAWmpjh

The art of lighting up scene is unique

OpenAI released a new video generated using Sora (made by Don Allen) showcasing its ability to go "beyond our reality". Rather than generating a video that mimics reality, Don created an "imaginary" world that looks realistic. While you could tell that some parts are CGI, there are impressively realistic parts to the video that are beyond imaginable. FYI, some of you might not like how some animal combinations look in the video. https://lnkd.in/gEADvp9f #generativeai #openaisora #sora

What a great article about our confetti business, Artistry In Motion, Inc. Look out for the confetti Monday night!

art comes in all forms.

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DoubleJump first Artist HALL OF FAME 💎 But for real, what is the Hall of Fame? It's a celebration of the best DJA artists who joined a workshop and created something mind-blowing after finishing it. By entering the Hall of Fame, you will receive exclusive DJA perks and a special certificate that actually means something. It's like that super impossible armor set you get in a video game for grinding and working your ass off, which you can show off so everyone knows you're the boss now. its almost impossible to get in, but a few made it! and a select few got the golden ticket! the quality bar was set so high i bet its harder to get in then Harvard. After you complete a workshop you can submit your final project, we review it and decide if the quality is good enough. the bar is extremely high as you can see from this first batch of hall of famers. if you get in you get 50% off towards any workshop. Four people got the golden ticket, which means they get any workshop of their choice for free and receive untold riches and fame. ps: i made a mistake, the blue car was made by Luca Goury!

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