“How can we create something more interactive? How can we create a dialogue or move people in a way that it alters them?” she asks. She believes that beyond boosting attendance, immersive technology can actually help visitors have a deeper, more meaningful experience.
Mira Lane, who runs the Ethics & Society Team within Cloud & Artifical Intelligence at Microsoft, is a technologist and artist who leant her support to the Knight Foundation challenge. The hope is that the investment from Knight and support from Microsoft will bridge this knowledge and resource gap, giving museums a powerful tool to tackle attendance challenges. “Across the board, arts institutions are hungry to improve their use of technology to connect with audiences,” he says “But limited know-how and resources are inhibiting experimentation and success.” “The selected institutions receiving new support from Knight are exploring and paving the path towards a new era of creativity, one that will allow humanity to transcend boundaries across physical and digital, memory and imagination, time and space, science and art,” says Lila Tretikov, corporate vice president of AI Perception and Mixed Reality at Microsoft.Ĭhris Barr, Director of Arts and Technology Innovation at the Knight Foundation, believes the time is ripe for arts institutions to experiment with immersive technology. It doesn’t matter that he’s singing, 'It don’t matter if you’re black or white.' Even as psychological and intellectual mutilations take place, as long as there’s still a cultural base, anything that anybody writes or says or does is strong enough to withstand these violations.In addition to funding from Knight, the organizations will receive optional coaching from Microsoft’s mixed reality team, access to Microsoft and partner technology, and the opportunity to be featured across Microsoft marketing channels. But if Michael Jackson can mutilate his body-and still create, make sounds that come out of him which are ancient, vocally-some part of his spirit remains intact, has not been violated. There are unquestionably economic realities and, without a doubt, racism and the machinery of power and the crap that gets done to men and the crap that gets done to women-all of that stuff is very real.
I don’t view black culture as a fragile thing. They didn’t understand my arrogance, my belief that the culture I come from is so strong it can withstand public scrutiny. In the interview he said, "When The Colored Museum happened, all these mediocre Negroes who regard themselves as the guardians of black culture attacked me because they thought I was attacking black culture, that I was doing things in front of white people that shouldn’t be done. In 1995, bell hooks interviewed Wolfe for Bomb magazine. Wolfe's not a man without opinion nor one without a valid point. This is a work that contains some references that are a bit dated, yet as a whole it is exceedingly timely. I meant to read this before I saw the performance at Wayne State University's Hilberry, but the cast and direction were so good that reading it several weeks after the show, I'm all the more impressed. Every scene addresses the history of African Americans from the time they came.
And whereas I can’t live inside yesterday’s pain, I can’t live without it.” Eleven different scenes are revealed in the play, each with different characters. “So, hunny, don’t waste your time trying to label or define me…’cause I’m not what I was ten years ago or ten minutes ago. While Wolfes goal was to bring laughter around the racism and race relations in America, the underlying goal was to challenge and he did just that. These exhibits that Wolfe creates in this play hold true to the anger, the life and the struggles that blacks experienced in the 1980’s. Wolfe was a satirist, he used humor as the vehicle to drive home the message that surrounded the topics most would find uncomfortable to discuss. The focus of this play was on what it meant to be black in what is described as contemporary America. I ended up having the stomach bug, and that was the last time I set foot on stage. I remember being mortified and I ran off stage. I get called in and I state my name, and just as I was about to start my lines I projectile vomited. The day of the audition comes, and my stomach was bothering me and I thought it was just butterflies. A local theater held auditions of this play a few years ago, and I practiced my lines and practiced my lines. I have been in about 4 plays and 1 musical. A funny fact about me, I am a lover of theater.