This is actually the main point of this site: collecting research (which to me means anything from reading assignments to random YouTube clips) so I can find it again.
Or of just see the pages here (in a random order, because A-Z is overrated):
I started off with a page on Erbe-Verb, which (obviously) Erbe had created, and the more I looked the more I felt like I wanted to keep more information on his work around, so we’re making a Tom Erbe page. It’s the first biography page on this site! Related On BLIMPtwo: Erbe-Verb - An amazing reverb Erbe created. Spectra - The project I was working on that led me to finding out about Erbe in the first place....
An MIT lecture that gives fairly in-depth instructions on how to give a presentation, but is generally a great primer on how to communicate and can be applied to a lot of other things.
https://www.cathlynnewell.com/Secret-Sky I mean just look at it: I found out about this through Stewart Hicks’s video The Architecture of Salvage:
I was leafing through the UCSB MAT program website and checking out some of the students' work there, and randomly clicked on Mengyu Chen’s website. He mostly seems to do things with VR and AR, but I really loved some of his work on “Objects”, particularly the “Misanthropist”. https://www.mengyuchen.com/object/Misanthropist It’s a stool that runs away from you. The video really helps to illustrate it. It’s not perfect, but I think it a brilliant project....
It’s showtime. There is no audience. Waste paper. You are god. Invent. No fear. No pity. Judge it tomorrow. Consider the elbow. From this video (see this page for more information on these 360 degree Q&A videos):
I saw this video from Mike Boyd’s YouTube channel today: And I think it’s a really really compelling gesture and effect. My initial instinct was that I should learn it and put it in a BFF act, but now I’m also thinking about whether it could be adapted for other performance purposes in the future. That reminded me of the pop-up tent throwing in “Heaven On Their Minds” (the Arena Tour version with Tim Minchin): Ultimately those didn’t fully work, but it’s still an interesting idea, and the fact that it works (perhaps more beautifully I think) with umbrellas is provocative....
Aaron Swartz was a giant and a hero. He wrote Guerrilla Open Access and founded theinfo.org. His personal website can be found here: http://www.aaronsw.com/
A pretty amazing juggling performance using clay.
I found out about Steyerl from this New Yorker Article: Hito Steyerl’s Digital Visions. It’s a good read, but the thing that stuck out to me the most was the title of a 2013 work of hers: How Not to be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File As of writing, you can watch the whole thing here: https://www.artforum.com/video/hito-steyerl-how-not-to-be-seen-a-fucking-didactic-educational-mov-file-2013-51651. It’s about 16 minutes long. It’s pretty great.
You know Sandra Boynton is a genius. You love her work. But have you heard her version of Maurice Ravel’s Boléro for Kazoos and Orchestra? You should.