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...What's interesting about seeing these students approach interactivity is that they have no pre-conceived notions about what it means," says Time cyberspace writer Joshua Quittner, one of the judges. "They took this new medium and pushed it to its limits...
...creative heyday, Gian Carlo Menotti, 83, was noted more for his dark, neo-Puccini operas, such as The Saint of Bleecker Street and The Medium, than for comedy or farce. In later years, however, the aging composer more than made up for it. The setting was the antebellum-in-aspic city of Charleston, South Carolina, where in 1977 Menotti founded an American counterpart to his annual Spoleto Festival in Italy. Two years ago, Menotti resigned in a huff after a petulant, embarrassing two-year power struggle with the festival's board and management. First the board insisted on including...
Mapplethorpe's career was an emblem of the 1980s art scene, when bohemianism was banished and artists became media stars. Photography was the perfect medium for the times: fast, mechanical and endlessly reproducible. Mapplethorpe, as Morrisroe notes, divided his work between his X-rated sex pictures and his PG-rated portraits and flowers. He merchandised both shrewdly. Mapplethorpe's talent was given to his work, but his genius was devoted to marketing himself...
...Hansen himself says that during the final weeks of his thesis, he would spend three or more hours a day nursing his medium mug of black coffee through the full temperature spectrum...
...really find that I enjoy it because of the fact that it's a way of communicating with someone else," Fung says. "It's a different medium...