Greetings to the InterArts community, and whomever else may run across these words. My name’s D. Todd Dickerson, and I’ll be helping cover events at the 2013 Time-Based Art Festival. I’ve been an occasional T:BA attendant for years now, so it should be interesting approaching with a more critical lens. Look forward to musings and […]
Category: Arts Review
Last night, the 11th Annual Time-Based Art Festival had its kickoff. I picked up my media pass at the box office located next to PICA headquarters around 4 pm yesterday. It is worth commenting on their pricing. As large scale multi-venue festivals are concerned, and for what T:BA offers, passes are definitely fairly priced, plus […]
You will never hear me utter the phrase, “I couldn’t agree more,” because nothing is entirely agreeable. The title to this book seems disagreeable for many, especially at first. Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy, does not read as some absurdly unsupported rant. Indeed, nothing can be more agreeable than the […]
The classic 1971 musical-film, Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory is a period piece set in London during the Great Depression. Wait; usually a Depression is set in America. Come to think of it, there are computers and television in the film—those are post-war fancies. One of my favorite scenes involves a technician with a […]
During the summer of 2003, I was working retail at The Salvation Army full-time, in The Valley, Los Angeles area–more specifically Sun Valley–at 8232 Sunland Blvd where today there appears to be a busted out smoke shop. I had just recently graduated Sound Master Audio/Video Institute in North Hollywood, where today a high-rise apartment building […]