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Sunday, November 07, 2021

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

Here are the top five comment generating posts of the past week:

What a Dramaturg Does

Dramatics Magazine Online : Defining what a dramaturg does in one tidy sentence is hard to do. The dictionary says a dramaturg is someone who specializes in dramaturgy. Here’s a link to Dramaturgy 101 that will help you if you want more detail. Or you can simply read on and let Ken Cerniglia give you his definition of what he does as a dramaturg.

Who gets to play who on screen? The queer question of Julianna Margulies on "The Morning show"

Salon.com : Among the many surprises of the second season of Apple TV+'s "The Morning Show" is Reese Witherspoon's Bradley Jackson exploring her fluid sexuality with another woman. Julianna Margulies' Laura Peterson is an out-and-proud lesbian journalist at the fictional UBA network who lost her job shortly after being outed in the '90s.

Open Architecture unveils rock-like concert hall in a valley outside Beijing

www.dezeen.com : Chinese studio Open Architecture has completed The Chapel of Sound, a monolithic open-air concert hall in a valley next to the ruins of the Great Wall of China outside Beijing.

Absen Green Sets New Standards for Sustainability

LightSoundJournal.com : Absen today launched a new green initiative, Absen Green, that brings together its industry leading efforts in sustainability, environmental protection, energy efficiency and corporate social responsibility and reaffirms its commitment to a better future for all.

Can Computers Be Creative? A Look at AI Use in Music Composition

AMT Lab @ CMU : When we think about AI, it generally is with some amount of wariness. We’ve all seen too many science-fiction movies where sentient robots take over the world, but we’re mostly certain that the creativity needed for these sentient beings to overtake us doesn’t exist. Artists, musicians, and creatives especially have historically been comfortable with the knowledge that their livelihoods were not in danger of being replaced by AI because of the inherent creativity necessary in those industries… until now.

 

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