June 29ths
6/29/1989 (Keith Haring Journal)
“...The computer has totally changed the whole concept of what composes and defines a “picture space.” The whole relation between the creator and the viewer has changed. The relationship between the physical gesture of drawing and the resultant image has changed....”
[Now you can swap out the word “computer” with “AI”. But new technologies don’t really change an artist’s practice. Warhol made one of the first computer artworks in 1986 and it didn’t change his work, nor did it change Haring’s. There have always been new advancements in tools and implements, but they don’t undermine what an artist is already doing, even amid paradigm shifts. New media are like what Antoine de Saint-Exupery said about the invention of the airplane: "Our very psychology has been shaken to its foundations, to its most secret recesses. Our notions of separation, distance, return, are reflections of a new set of realities, though the words themselves remain unchanged. New technologies are paradigm shifts."]
6/29/1999
25 years since its closure.
No Exit Cafe closes after 40 years.
6/29/2004
New trends: "Branded entertainment" (the program and the commercials, advertisements as one product...no need to have a commercial because it's suffused in the program). It is also called “convergence”, a paradigm shift.
[This convergence was also happening on the web, but there was no streaming video at this point. Advertisements in YouTube videos and podcasts are manifestations of the shift, now 20 years on].
"New Urbanism" movement in architecture. The goal of the movement is to revive urban planning from the past when cities were a melange of homes, shops, restaurants—and away from strip malls and office parks. Basically you have "outposts" (Stops on the rail lines) communities develop around it.
Bob Dylan reluctantly accepts honorary degree. That's like making an atheist a bishop. You don't need high degrees in order to make substantial contributions to culture.