The year is 1870, 7 years before the invention of the phonograph by Thomas Edison. As a musical artist, if you wanted to distribute your content to an audience, you did so through sheet music, either painstakingly copied by hand, or if you were lucky, replicated on some kind of a printing press. Music distribution […]
“If you’re wearing your Disney MagicBand and you’ve made a reservation, a host will greet you at the drawbridge and already know your name—Welcome Mr. Tanner!…The hostess, on her modified iPhone, received a signal when the family was just a few paces away. Tanner family inbound! The kitchen also queued up: Two French onion soups, two roast beef […]
Museums ranging in all disciplines act as cultural hubs that narrate a story to their visitors. These spaces, and the people who curate the items that are found in these spaces, in many ways dictate the cultural identity of the respective area they exist in. The items acquired by museums often have great cultural significance […]
The hype around non-fungible tokens (NFTs) seems to be reaching a fever pitch. With news of certain digital art pieces selling for tens of millions of dollars and conjecture about what utility these tokens may have outside of the art world, for better or for worse, Web3 has arrived. These technological developments aren’t just demonstrating […]
Isaac Fisher Introduction: Where are cartoons published these days? Digital publishing is the first outlet of exposure for many emerging cartoonists. Independent cartoonists in search for wider audiences can harness free to upload publishing platforms like Webtoon, Tapas, Tumblr, Reddit, Imgur Youtube, and Instagram to make their works available to wider audiences than can be […]
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Using AI to Detect Fraud
Back in 2013, a controversy shook the music industry when Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams allegedly plagiarized Marvin Gaye’s song “Give it Up” in their pop (and sexist) hit, “Blurred Lines.” The lawsuit began when Gaye’s children sued Thicke and Williams for stealing their father’s song. Gaye’s offspring were ultimately awarded millions of dollars due […]
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Art Theft and NFTs
It is fitting that the quote I intended to open this article with is impossible to attribute to any one person. “Good artists copy, great artists steal” or some similar wording has been associated with artists and “creatives” such as Steve Jobs, Pablo Picasso, T. S. Eliot, Igor Stravinsky, and William Faulkner. I can think […]
VR has been around for a long time, and many different industries have adopted it as a tool. As it’s made its way into the performing arts space, theater has used it to enhance what’s being presented onstage. Thus, a whole new branch of theater has emerged, with a very different audience experience from ‘typical,’ […]
As new virtual technologies make their way into the arts and on-stage, there is a much more tangible technology currently being utilized in theater and most audience members do not even realize they are watching it. Like many technological ideas, the concept of 3D printing has been around much longer than the actual capability to […]
Technology: does your organization (or you) consider it an expenditure or an investment? How we label technology has a significant impact as it underscores assumptions that affect organizations’ efficacy in its internal and audience facing technology work. If an organization is, for lack of a better term, a technology Luddite, in orther words not using […]