“The theater became a space for multi-tribal community of people -- celebrating who they are and rising up their stories. I was in the back of the theater, weeping,” remembers Wendy Levy, Executive Director of The Alliance for Media Arts + Culture, an international nonprofit whose mission is to facilitate collaboration, strategic growth, innovation and cultural impact for the media arts field.
Archive for category: storytelling
Antecedent Technology
Antecedent Technology Don’t colonize our future By: Amelia Winger-Bearskin Reprinted From Immerse In data science, we talk about models suffering from either “overfitting” or “underfitting.”...
Youth Media Playlist 2019
During my time with the Alliance, I have had the pleasure to dive into the realm of Youth Media, and interact with passionate leaders in the field, which is something I have always wanted to do.
Healing Through the Arts: LoveTopia
If you can create your own world what would it be? What would it look like?
TRANSITIONS
I recently picked up Adrienne Marie Brown’s Emergent Strategies. In it, Brown describes a way of thinking and organizing that she calls fractal. A fractal is “a curve or geometric figure, each part of which has the same statistical character as the whole.”
OFF BALANCE
Balance. I’ve never really been all that good at it. As a child, I would take a running leap off the public dock, curl myself up, and land cannonball-style into Lake Minnetonka at the first hint of spring.
Hacking for Good, Hacking for Colored Girls
By Emily Kuester For me, this summer has been packed with new. New experiences, new cities, new people, new tech. As a new member of...
Co-Creation, Collaboration and the Making of The Issue
In January 2018, The Alliance for Media Arts + Culture published the first issue of The Issue, a new intergenerational arts and culture magazine.
🎙 Your media arts & culture news 📷 ALLIANCE eBulletin 📹 April 2018
From the Executive Director Discoveries and Dreams by Wendy Levy April has truly been a month of discoveries at The Alliance: We discovered our true...