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Blueskying a Social Media Platform for the Arts
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Richard Lowenberg
The State of Artmaking on Social Media Networked society while wondrous in its emergent realization and collective potential, is evolving along an increasingly troubled path, now led primarily by corporate trajectories and unspoken capitalist visions, intertwined with the destructive influences and vested interests affecting the realms of localism-globalism, energy, economics, politics and all other segments of our inter-dynamic eco-social evolution. Current social media is especially troubled. Our social media understandings as the basis for next iterations, must be considered in relation to the near future of the Internet, bandwidth matters, widening digital divides, and the development of technological society amid existential concerns for our narrow-minded economies and ecological survivability. How do the arts fit into this complexity? While selectively using past and current social media and paying close attention to international criticisms of Facebook, Google and other dominant platforms, I have given little constructive thought to what next for social media and the arts. So, I look forward to jointly thinking through, conspiring and communicating about our topic and the formidable challenges before us. Serious fun. Social Networks for the Arts – Preliminary Considerations
Additional Considerations
Transcript of Richard Lowenberg's Facebook and Google Doc conversations
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Judy Malloy: Overviews, Ideas, Histories, and Observations from Policy Makers and Advocates
Juana Guzman
Dal Yong Jin
Richard Lowenberg
Marisa Parham
Ellen Sandor from: Artists/Educators
Adriene Jenik
Tom Klinkowstein
Wendel A. White from Artists/Designers
Deanne Achong
Tommer Peterson from Curators and Critics
George Fifield
Isobel Harbison
SAIC ATS Class in Social Media Narrative SAIC ATS Part-time Faculty: Judy Malloy |
R
ichard Lowenberg, born in Haifa in 1946, is an artist, planner/designer and eco-cultural activist.
He has dedicated his creative life to understandings and creative realization of works exploring
and setting examples for an "ecology of the information environment", and via art/science/society
collaborations, demonstrating emergent opportunities for development of a "cultural economy".
Richard founded 1st-Mile Institute in 2006, its New Mexico "Broadband for All" Initiative, and
SARC (Scientists/Artists Research Collaborations) programs. Living on an organic farm in
Jacona, NM, he serves on the Board of Parallel Studios’ CURRENTS: New Media Festival. He
co-organized Internet Society's Indigenous Connectivity Summit, held in Santa Fe, Nov. 2017.
Richard studied design and taught at Pratt Institute, initiating its Electronic Media Arts program
in 1971, and was one of the founding team of the Kitchen in NYC that year. He was founding
Programs Director of the Telluride Institute from 1984-1996 and led its InfoZone rural Internet
project. From 1996-2006, Richard directed the Davis Community Network, taught
TechnoCulture Studies and was Artist-in-Bioregional Residence at UC Davis.
Richard was involved in a number of early telecommunication-arts projects, and has integrated
networking with rural community eco-planning across the U.S., as well as in Japan, Europe and
South America. He prepared and led New Mexico’s statewide broadband initiative, 2008-2012.
Personal interdisciplinary design, media arts, installation, performance and art/science works
have involved collaborations with Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories, UNM, Santa
Fe Institute, NASA, Gorilla Foundation, military labs, intelligence agencies, numerous high-tech
companies and research institutions. Artworks have been presented internationally at the
Kitchen, Whitney Museum, San Francisco MoMA, Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf, NTT-ICC, Tokyo,
Santa Fe CCA, 1986 Venice Biennale, MIT List Center and ISEA2012. Grants/support awarded
by NEA, State Arts Councils (CO, CA, NM), SECA, Art Matters, National Space Society, IBM,
Apple, CPB, NTIA, GRiD, JVC, Lightwork, McCune Charitable Trust and Thoma Foundation.