I never thought I would become addicted to something like Midjourney, an AI image generator that allows users to create highly realistic and customizable images of people, places, and things. That's exactly what I began to see happening though, but only because I’ve become sensitive to the ways that technologies can hook us. The entertainment indus

The Crypto Skeptic: Where I dismissed the NFT craze Ever since Bitcoin came onto the scene in 2009, I have been generally skeptical of crypto currencies. While I tend to be an early adopter of new technologies, I was not the type to build a computer to mine the early Bitcoins. Later as it gained real value, it got swarmed by speculators and flipper

Audience engagement activities can have a spillover effect on communities when audience members share their enthusiasm with others who did not attend. (Brown & Ratzkin, 2011, p. 29) This article is a continuation from Audience Engagement: The Making of Meaning. The goal is to strategically design better audience experiences centered on media

SUMMARY: “Engagement is a unifying philosophy that brings together marketing, education and artistic programming in common service of maximizing impact.” (Brown & Ratzkin, 2011, p. 2) I make an argument for an innovative and holistic approach to audience engagement in media arts. One that calls for the creation of a new role — Experience Design

SUMMARY: The goal of quality curation should be to create Audience Engagement that results in an Impact Echo. A new metric of success should be defined around when a piece of media gains Cultural Purchase. TOPICS: Curation, Media, Audience Engagement NOTE: This article was originally published on Medium March 16, 2021. I am moving my writing over t