IAN BECKMAN REAGAN

brand strategy @gretelnyc

[IAN BECKMAN REAGAN @IanReagan]

@mikesmith187 @floraai

[IAN BECKMAN REAGAN @IanReagan]

@weberwongwong Excited for this!

[ArtReview_ @ArtReview_]

Avery Singer, Simon Denny, Holly Herndon, Mat Dryhurst and Jon Rafman discuss – with the help of a generated AI – what the ‘post-AI’ future holds https://t.co/oylqa1s3jm

[Mitch Paone @DIA_Mitch]

Real criticism in graphic design used to be a public practice. From Emigre and Eye to Cranbrook debates and Dot Dot Dot, discourse shaped the field. Today it’s mostly gone. Media outlets are just PR funnels. Not critical discourse. I'd like to revive this practice, whos in!?

[George Pendle @georgependle]

Three brilliant pieces have been written this year that really get to the queasy spirit of our age:

@danielkolitz on its obsessive compulsions
@deankissick on its visual images
@joliverconroy on its spiritual beliefs

One could say that all three talk about the same thing - the creation of an uncanny reality, a change in what it means to be human, and the search for a god of our own making.

https://t.co/681gyEbaaN

https://t.co/o0qRmluQ6Z

https://t.co/ZMBtSY0qCh

[Dean Kissick @deankissick]

“Aesthetics weren’t important anymore” –
a very good and pithy observation by Cathy Horyn. We are post-aesthetics now.

[IAN BECKMAN REAGAN @IanReagan]

@mikesmith187 https://t.co/3ADy77To5h

[William Gibson @GreatDismal]

I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later, I opened the door. Neuromancer is in production.

[Dialectic with Jackson Dahl @DialecticPod]

Ep. 20: Yancey Strickler - Constellations of Creativity

Yancey Strickler (@ystrickler) is a writer, entrepreneur, creative, and founder of Metalabel, a network and platform that allows creative people to release work together. He is also a board member, co-founder and former CEO of Kickstarter and is currently working on establishing a new kind of corporate structure, the Artist Corporation.

Yancey's life and work has revolved around what it means to be a creative individual, and how to improve the cultural and mechanical forms that enable artists and creatives.

We talk about how much of modern society is rooted in individualism, how that wasn't always the case, and how the internet is evolving our sense of self. We get into creativity, the term's surprisingly recent origins, and why Yancey believes the 21st will be the "Creative Century." Then, we go beyond the individual and discuss the deeply-rooted longing that all of us have to be a part of something bigger than ourselves. Yancey suggests that is not simply about being subsumed by a collective, but by maintaining our individual star while becoming part of larger constellations—like the labels that have empowered the distribution of ideas for centuries. Finally, we discuss the forms Yancey has or is helping to build and imagine a future where even more of the world creates professionally.

Timestamps:
- (1:41): Individualism, Identity, and the Internet
- (19:13): Creativity — Its Origins, Art, and Reaching Toward Something Deeper
- (33:30): The Creative Century and a Case for the Continued Growth of Professional Creativity
- (38:27): Hampton
- (40:02): Something Bigger than Ourselves — The Post-Individual, Bentoism, Being a Star and a Constellation
- (51:51): Labels & Conspiring Together in Practice
- (1:07:15): New Forms & Kickstarter
- (1:18:44): Metalabel
- (1:31:56): Creativity and Commerce & A Brand New Form: The Artist Corporation
- (1:46:22): The Long Game: Supporting the Artistic and Creative Life

Transcript and all references available below.

[Harm van den Dorpel @harmvddorpel]

Been working on a series of hybrid drawings: partly mechanically drawn with a plotter, partly hand drawn by me with colour pencils.

Pictured here "Alithea", 69 × 82cm / 27.2 × 32.3″

The base composition is generated by the Mutant Garden algorithm.

[IAN BECKMAN REAGAN @IanReagan]

First AI creative tool I really believe in // @weberwongwong & the @floraai team are making something special.

[weber @weberwongwong]

We raised $6.5 million to build the world's most powerful creative tool.

[William Deresiewicz @WDeresiewicz]

Today is launch day for The Metropolitan Review, a new literary journal I'm on the editorial board of. At last a place for rigorous, ambitious criticism and vigorous, idiosyncratic writing. Pitches welcome. @the_met_review
https://t.co/krKfC4W8gk

[Holly Herndon @hollyherndon]

Our GPU organ plays music acoustically by controlling the RPM of each fan

The Call is now open to the public until February @SerpentineUK in Hyde Park London

[IAN BECKMAN REAGAN @IanReagan]

This is my gospel @hels

[Karrie Jacobs @KarrieUrbanist]

“What appears at first glance as a cataclysm is, on closer inspection, a possible model for how New York City neighborhoods should manage the business of growth and the addition of much-needed housing.”

My latest, from the August issue of The Nation.

https://t.co/94NiFlxiqu

[IAN BECKMAN REAGAN @IanReagan]

@thisisgrey @hashthetics Deep in it - berlioz

[Charli @charli_xcx]

Brat - this summer. 15 songs. 41:23 minutes long. on repeat. https://t.co/JHsLbjO049

[Karrie Jacobs @KarrieUrbanist]

Welcome to Delirious New York, where the ongoing game of real estate chess is camouflaged by goofy rides and attractions.

https://t.co/kpZAifE2VL

[SVA MA Design Research @DCrit]

How To: Sell Youth Culture. @IanReagan explores the history of branding the American teenager, from @Seventeen's Teena to @Nike today. Watch it now!

https://t.co/czaeJISnIH

#branding #culture #youthculture #designthinking #brandstrategy #culturetransformation #marketing

[SVA MA Design Research @DCrit]

TOMORROW! @IanReagan joins @AIGANY's Fresh Grad: Showcase 2023 to present "How To Sell Youth Culture." Join him as he explores the history and consequences of branding the American teenager.

https://t.co/oyDWkUnKy5

#branding #culture #designresearch #designthinking