War and Transformations
The 3rd of May 1808 in Madrid, or The Executions, oil on canvas by Francisco Goya, 1814. Height: 268 cm, Width: 347 cm. Courtesy, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Artist Monika Weiss on Francisco Goya, War, Trauma, and Unforgetting History
Michael Najjar, electric rainfall from cool earth series, 2021-ongoing Hybrid photography, 132 x 202 cm, © Michael Najjar
Michael Najjar cool earth,
2021-ongoing
The artworks of the cool earth series combine science and fiction. They imagine the transition to a world without fossil energy and open up a mental field of possibilities for the viewer of how we could shape a liveable, post-destructive world.
Intended as a performance art visual poem in response to the covid lockdown, UK-based artist Marty St. James, a pioneer in this genre, created InBetween World in 2022. However, the work has expanded meanings, as it inhabits and intertwines human form and nature stretched and overtaken with strange form and mind alterations—it is a metaphor of human interdependence in a world grappling with crises of wars, social injustice, and climate change.
Lundahl & Seitl, North American Tour
Swedish artist duo Lundahl & Seitl present VR works at MIT Media Lab ACT program
of Urbonas Studio in Cambridge, MA; Swedish House in Washington D.C.; Onassis Foundations's ONX Studio, and Scandinavia House in NYC; artist talks and a conversation with Barbara London. Sponsored by the Consulate General of Sweden
in NYC and the Embassy of Sweden in Washington, D.C.
"Arido Taurajo", is an operatic music video produced through human-AI collaboration.
James Morgan and Maya Ackerman discuss their process in creating it, and its relevance to social issues and the future Streaming Museum is featuring this
program at the 2022 Split Film Festival, Split, Croatia. (splitfilmfestival.com)
Publications
CENTERPOINT NOW, “Are we there yet?”
publication presents an unexpected take on the United Nations’ 75th anniversary, reflecting on the immense scope of the UN’s mandate through topics as diverse as the implications of space exploration, ethics for human health, the impact of peacekeeping, women and finance, traditional medicine, global migration, gender and climate change, architecture and energy solutions for the future, AI and humanism, the neuroscience of bias, overcoming the challenges of multilateralism, and more. The strong emphasis on art invites the reader to engage with the subjects on various levels. Centerpoint Now is a publication and copyright of World Council of Peoples for the United Nations. This special issue was produced in collaboration with Streaming Museum.
Streaming Museum, based in New York City, is pleased to announce our partnership in The European Institute of Innovation and Technology - a body of the European Union. Our articles are included in the publication and multi-media website - The Next Renaissance that brings together makers and thinkers in art, tech, industries, innovation and generations in Europe.
Streaming Museum’s inaugural articles, Of Poets: Human and Robot, and How We Live Together, were originally published in the UN 75th anniversary issue of CENTERPOINT NOW "Are we there yet?”, the publication and ©2020 of World Council of Peoples for the United Nations, co-produced with Streaming Museum.