In what will generally be condemned by everyone as a creepy dystopian move, the Chinese government has massively expanded its video surveillance network into supermarkets, schoolrooms, university classrooms, malls – and, in a special post-modern twist, into theaters and cinemas. Over 5 million cameras have been installed throughout the country, and the Chinese government’s video […]
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Art Threat: Myth-busting the Internet: The truth about throttling, congestion and usage-based billing – New report offers scathing critique of Canadian telecoms industry
A new report challenges claims made by Canada’s largest telecommunication companies in recent disputes over Internet billing and governance. Casting An Open Net: A Leading-Edge Approach to Canada’s Digital Future, offers an at times scathing critique of telecom positions on Internet congestion, BiTorrent use, billing strategies and throttling and backs its criticisms with topnotch research […]
Continue readingArt Threat: A film festival grows up – Hot Docs wrestles with the politics and popularity of documentary
Dissecting the huge sprawling beast that is the Hot Docs film festival.
Continue readingArt Threat: The need for satire – Canada’s troublesome lack of a consistent satirical voice
Canada lacks a consistent satirical voice to point out whatever political contradictions and hypocrisies were so often set forth into the airwaves.
Continue readingArt Threat: A Conservative government: What now?
Last week I wrote an editorial exploring the role of the arts in creating healthy and prosperous countries. With the government of Canada making major shifts across the board last night, becoming a Conservative majority government (I refuse to call it the “Harper Government”) many artists and arts organizations are writhing at the thought of […]
Continue readingArt Threat: The arts are vital to our prosperity
By supporting the individuals inherently inclined to create, we foster a culture in which innovative thinking is encouraged. Through their unusual vision we can draw our own alternatives in science, business and yes, even politics.
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