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Kickstart Your Art! a presentation by Kickstarter Co-founder Yancey Strickler

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2016 84:24


Kickstarter Co-Founder Yancey Strickler discusses how artists have used the platform to fund their work and launch their careers. The presentation is followed by a Q&A led by Professor Jamie Meltzer from the MFA Program in Documentary Film and Video, who used Kickstarter to fund his recent film.

Fashion at Stanford: Ron Johnson in conversation with Cathy Horyn on Fashion and Retail

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2014 85:07


On December 2, 2013, Cathy Horyn, Fashion Critic for the New York Times, sat with Ron Johnson, former CEO of JCPenney and SVP of Retail at Apple, to discuss brand integrity and the future of retail.

From Lyric Novel to Lyric Stage: Vikram Seth's The Golden Gate as Novel in Verse and Opera

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2013


A multi-media presentation of Vikram's Seth's The Golden Gate as Novel in Verse and Opera that includes readings of Seth's verse, a video of a 2010 staged workshop of the opera at Lincoln Center, and a discussion with composer Conrad Cummings. The homecoming is long overdue: The Golden Gate, Vikram Seth's 1986 novel-in-verse, was born among Stanford's sandstone buildings and palm trees. Now the Bay Area has a chance to hear highlights of composer Conrad Cummings' opera of the novel. John Henry Davis, who directed the Lincoln Center workshop production, also directs the Stanford program. Seth provides a video welcome. Sponsored by the English Department, American Studies Program, and the Arts Institute at Stanford University.

12. The Future of Creativity

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2012


A distinguished panel of speakers discuss the future of creativity and the dichotomy between technology and art. (November 2, 2012)

11. Fragile Components: A Critical Creative Response to Art in the Digital Age

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2012


Jennifer Brody discusses the dichotomy between art and technology and reflects on the interesting speakers of the day. (November 2, 2012)

10. Digitality and the Democratization of Art and Design

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2012


(November 2, 2012) Jon McKenzie discusses how practices such as remediation connect to infrastructural changes of knowledge and power.

9. How Creative Work is Programmed

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2012


Ellen Ullman discusses many of technology's downsides and faults and describes how it can be improved to better serve society and art. (November 2, 2012)

8. Ecomedia: Environmental Science and Technology and Interaction in Public Art

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2012


Andrea Polli discusses how climate technology and digital media affect and shape her artistry. (November 2, 2012)

7. Making Sense and Not Making Sense

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2012


Maira Kalman discusses how technology and digital media effect and shape her artistry. (November 2, 2012)

6. Art in a Digital Age Afternoon Session Introduction

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2012


Stephen Hinton provides introductions for a variety of distinguished speakers. (November 2, 2012)

5. Srinija Srinivasan Response and Morning Panel Discussion

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2012


A panel of speakers answer audience questions and discuss the intersections between art and technology. (November 2, 2012)

4. Giving the Digital Its Due

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2012


Philip Auslander discusses how various art forms have utilized modern technology in innovative ways. (November 2, 2012)

3. Howard Herring's Art in a Digital Age Presentation

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2012


(November 2, 2012) Howard Herring presents how the New World Symphony of Miami is engaging with digital and multimedia technologies in its programming.

2. Art Between the Digital and Physical World

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2012


Joanne McNeil discusses the tangible qualities of digital art and outlines its interactions with the physical world. (November 2, 2012)

1. Introduction to Art in a Digital Age

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2012


Matthew Tiews and Stephen Hinton welcome all attendees and introduce the conferences, its purpose, and its goals. (November 2, 2012)

Spring Break Arts Immersion: New York City

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2011 2:44


Stanford students from many years and programs visited New York City over spring break and looked at all different facets of the arts. (Spring 2011)

Arts and Memory

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2011 72:43


A panel of Stanford arts faculty explore the broad theme of memory and the arts as part of the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts 2010 - 2011 theme of Memory. (June 2, 2011)

The Knot

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2011 45:51


The Knot, a new student-run multimedia play, follows the journeys--physical, emotional, and spiritual -- of one African American women as she returns to Ghana seeking knowledge and connection. (May 11, 2011)

Moves: Spring Student Works Showcase

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2011 24:41


Six student choreographers put together a dance performance of variety: ballet, lyrical jazz dance, modern, motion capture and performance art. (May 13, 2011)

Designing for Robots: A Class with Shona Kitchen

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2011 3:58


Shona Kitchen shares her project, which speculates through art and design how robotics could change and be part of our everyday life. (Winter 2011)

4. The Body and What it Carries: Sestina

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2011 17:53


The fourth piece of the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Art's series "The Body and What It Carries" performed in February by Stanford Drama and Dance. (February 17, 2011)

3. The Body and What it Carries: Poison and Pulp and Flesh

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2011 16:38


The third dance work of the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Art's series "The Body and What It Carries" performed in February by Stanford Drama and Dance. (February 17, 2011)

2. The Body and What it Carries: Room 56

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2011 14:44


The second piece of the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Art's series "The Body and What It Carries" performed in February by Stanford Drama and Dance. (February 17, 2011)

1. The Body and What it Carries: Motion Hymnery

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2011 24:47


The first work of the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Art's series "The Body and What It Carries" performed in February by Stanford Drama and Dance. (February 17, 2011)

The American Enlightenment: Treasures from the Stanford University Libraries

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2011 3:57


Caroline Winterer discusses the American Enlightenment Exhibit, exploring how New World discoveries and ideas contributed to the Enlightenment and the transatlantic debates over government, science, religion and individual rights. (February 7, 2011)

Mozart's 7 Deadly Sins

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2011 61:46


The Stanford Opera Workshop performs the operatic play, written by graduate student Derek Miller, in which Mozart is found in purgatory and characters from his operas stand as witnesses to his sinful achievements. (April 15, 2011)

Emerging String Quartet Program with the Arneis Quartet

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2011 45:22


The Emerging String Quartet Program presents the Arneis Quartet, prizewinners in the 2010 ICMEC Competition and artists-in-residence at the Banff Centre in Canada. (April 1, 2011)

Looking Deeper: The Chemistry of Art Materials

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2011 42:15


The four speakers discuss their collaboration on "True Colors," an exhibit at the Cantor Arts Center which fuses science and art, the classroom and the museum. (February 28, 2011)

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Art and Right to Public Space

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2011 79:38


Milica Tomic shares and discusses her work and results of a workshop that she held at Stanford, in which a group of students worked with her to further examine the atrocity between the Northern Alliance and Taliban soldiers. (March 9, 2011)

Technological Adaptations: Shona Kitchen

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2011 32:03


Shona Kitchen describes how she incorporates technology into her work and uses it to create a new genre of artistic development. She is currently the artist in residence in the Design Department of Mechanical Engineering. (February 14, 2011)

Judith Jamison Teaches a Master Class at Stanford

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2011 2:32


Judith Jamison is one of the foremost figures in American Dance and the Artistic Director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. In January of 2011 she visited Stanford as a Presidential Lecturer and to teach a master class. (January 10, 2011)

Print That Ties Us

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2011 3:37


Faisal Abdu' Allah, discusses his experience with teaching students at Stanford University, remarking on how it is different than any style of teaching he has ever been a part of. (Fall 2010)

Trimpin and Victor Gama: A Conversation on Sound and Art

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2011 19:08


Trimpin and Victor Gama discuss their approaches to sound and art and the ways in which they aim to integrate these two aspects into their creations. (November 2, 2010)

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Leo Castelli: A Global Gallerist Anchored in Renaissance Italy

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2011 55:00


Annie Cohen-Solal talks about her book on the life of Leo Castelli and and he played a role in bringing American art to the international forefront. (October 25, 2010)

The Arts in Student Life

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2011 54:11


Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, Harry Elam discusses the role and value of arts in student life on campus at Stanford. He describes the goal of having the arts be inescapable as part of an undergraduate education. (November 11, 2010)

Anything is Possible: Post-Screening Discussion on PBS's Art21

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2011 34:11


Sarah Simonson, Brian Wolf, Jaroslaw Kapucinski, and Erik Flatmo discuss the PBS film "Anything is Possible" featuring South African artist, William Kentridge. The panel discusses Kentridge's work at the nexus of film and performance. (November 10, 2010)

Victor Gama in Concert

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2011 64:50


Creative musician Victor Gama is a native of Lusophone Africa and uses his music to address the relationship between technologies and tradition. He is trained in electrical engineering and uses computer generated music heavily. (October 27, 2010)

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Fashion, Writing, and the Arts: A Conversation with Cathy Horyn and Nancy Troy

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2011 66:24


Speakers Cathy Horyn and Nancy Troy talk about fashion in writing and art and the role it plays today and has played throughout history. Cathy Horyn is a fashion critic for the New York Times and has worked for many European journals. (October 19, 2010)

Troilus and Cressida

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2010 124:29


Stanford Drama, collaborating with SiCa and the New York Public Theater, presents William Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida directed by critically acclaimed director Rob Melrose. (May 15, 2010)

Taiko Spring Break Workshop

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2010 2:35


Members of the Stanford Taiko Group discuss their experiences and what they learned from Taiko Master Kiyonari Tosha at their Taiko Spring Break Workshop, a three-day residency. (March 26, 2010)

The Artist As Critic/The Critic as Mouthpiece: The Peculiar Case of Jeff Wall

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2010 68:45


Julian Stallabrass, one of the most influential art critics in the United Kingdom, discusses how artists themselves, art critics and historians serve as sympathetic mouthpieces for artists using a case study of Jeff Wall. (April 7, 2010)

Creativity and Spontaneity in the Classroom

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2010 4:35


Richard Powers, dance historian and instructor at Stanford University, explains the role that spontaneity has played in various aspects of his own life. He emphasizes the importance in can have in living life to its full extent. (2010)

Party on the Edge 2009

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2010 6:05


Stanford artists and visitors talk about their experiences and feelings with the 2009 Party on the Edge, an event at the Cantor Arts Center that feature performing and visual art from the Stanford community. (October 1, 2009)

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An Art Affair & Future Fest

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2010 4:32


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Music, Memories and the Brain

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2010 66:20


science, art history, psychology, creative, humanities, music, memory, mind, brain, thought, technology, emotion, sound, song, experience, self identity, cognitive, neural, behavior, tonal space, note, toroidal, chord, harmony, key, tone, tonality, lyric,

Gwyneth Lewis, National Poet of Wales

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2010 45:18


Gwyneth Lewis, the first Poet Laureate of Wales, reads some of her poetry and answers questions about her writing. (November 10, 2009)

Trimpin

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2010 50:13


Trimpin explains the concept and some of the details of his latest project, a combination of music and visual arts that conveys the experience of the internment camp Gurs. (April 29, 2010)

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Beyond My Circle: A Performance Project Conceived in Kampala, Uganda

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2010 69:05


(October 1, 2009) Beyond My Circle is a performance project jointly created by students of Makerere University, Kampala Uganda, and Stanford University. The piece, created in just ten rehearsal days, is a catalog of their personal and physical journey.

Stanford Afro-Latin Jazz Ensemble: Spring Concert

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2010 62:17


In their 2010 Spring Concert, the Stanford Afro-Latin Jazz Ensemble performed with four-time Grammy-nominated percussionist John Santos. (May 24, 2010)

Stanford Jazz Orchestra: Winter Concert

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2010 21:12


(February 24. 2010) This video shows the beginning of the 2010 Stanford Jazz Orchestra Winter Concert. It includes performances of two songs entitled "Threads" and "Bridging the Gap".

Art + Invention Mini Grants: Debut at An Art Affair

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2010 4:30


(April 15-17, 2010) Stanford student Emily Mitchell, the SOCA Mini-Grants Coordinator, and various recipients of those grants talk about the Stanford art festival An Art Affair and the opportunities for expression that it presents for students.

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