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DIED. Whitney Balliett, 80, dean of jazz criticism, mostly for the New Yorker, whose vivid, sensual and impressionistic writing on the exploding medium mirrored the exuberance and cadence of the music itself; in New York City. His prose made palpable the styles and physicality of performers like drummer "Big Sid" Catlett (whose "huge hands ... reduced the drumsticks to pencils") and trumpeter "Doc" Cheatham (whose solos were "a succession of lines, steps, curves, parabolas, angles and elevations"). Defining his role as appreciative witness as opposed to stern judge, he and writer Nat Hentoff in 1957 put together TV's The Sound...
...respected curators from the world over. According to the Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) website, the program is “an intervention in the circulation and distribution of artists’ video.” It began as a way to broaden the audience for this particular medium and to make video art more accessible.Video art developed in the 1960s and 70s as a cheap and accessible medium for artists and audiences alike. Its nature allows for broad distribution, making video art a preferable way for artists to get their work out. In more recent years, however...
...media studies, cross-enrolling at MIT for the media studies courses. “I’m not nearly as hardcore a gamer as some—I’m certainly obsessed with a couple of games, but I have a lot of faith in the medium going forward,” Decker said yesterday, citing online video game systems that can be used to model real economies with near perfection as an example of the field’s potential. Decker’s interest in the area stemmed in part from a sophomore tutorial paper exploring...
...shown itself to be a resilient media force that just won’t go away. The new wave of radio technology on the horizon, such as satellite, high definition, and internet broadcasts, guarantees to alter the industry in exciting, but unpredictable ways.Until someone comes up with a better medium than the pervasive, egalitarian radio signal, however, radio will continue to be worthy of our attention.—Staff writer Kimberly E. Gittleson and contributing writer Evan L. Hanlon are executives at WHRB, Harvard’s student- run radio station. Gittleson can be reached at gittles@fas.harvard.edu...
...pleasurable.” However, despite their hopes for the future, many of these poets believe that poetry will never become a part of mass culture.“Real and deep engagement with poetry will always be something rare. Difficult art will be difficult no matter what the medium is,” says Dan Chaisson, a graduate of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and a widely published poet and professor of English at Wellesley College.“I would hate for [poetry] to be some market driven industry like fiction or visual...