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The Revenge Of The Dead Indians
The Revenge of the Dead Indians (original German title: ''Die Rache der toten Indianer'') is a 1993 documentary film essay directed by Henning Lohner about composer John Cage and his theories about music. It pays tribute to Cage's thoughts, music, and influence and has been described as "an unexpected and fascinating combination of intellectual thought, viewpoints and opinions." Featuring discussions with Cage himself as well as interviews with friends, companions and colleagues of the famous composer, the film thematically combines "found" video and audio landscapes inspired by Cage's texts, music and philosophy. It is structured according to Cage's compositional methods and translates these musical processes freely to the film medium. The film was released after Cage had recently died. It has been released on video and DVD since 10 June 2008. Content and form Both in content as well as in its cinematic approach and structure, The Revenge Of The Dead Indians is a homage to John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henning Lohner
Henning Lohner (born 17 July 1961) is a German-American composer and filmmaker. He is best known for his film scores written as a long-standing member of Hans Zimmer’s music cooperative Remote Control Productions. Lohner has written scores to various international films, among them ''The Ring Two'' and ''Incident at Loch Ness''. Additionally, he has authored documentaries and art films, and has gained international recognition as creator of the ''Active Images'' media art projects. Background and education Born to German emigrant parents, Henning Lohner was raised near Palo Alto, California, where his father Edgar Lohner taught Comparative Literature at Stanford University and his mother Marlene Lohner taught German Literature. Lohner has one brother, Peter, who is a lawyer turned writer-producer for film and television. Lohner returned to Germany to study musicology, art history, and Romanic languages at Frankfurt University, from which he graduated as Master of Arts in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alison Knowles
Alison Knowles (born 1933) is an American visual artist known for her installations, performances, soundworks, and publications. Knowles was a founding member of the Fluxus movement, an international network of artists who aspired to merge different artistic media and disciplines. Criteria that have come to distinguish her work as an artist are the arena of performance, the indeterminacy of her event scores resulting in the deauthorization of the work, and the element of tactile participation. She graduated from Pratt Institute in New York with an honors degree in fine art. In May 2015, she was awarded an honorary doctorate degree by Pratt. In the 1960s, she was an active participant in New York City's downtown art scene, collaborating with influential artists such as John Cage and Marcel Duchamp. During this time she began producing event scores, or performances that rework the everyday into art. Knowles's inclusion of visual, aural, and tactile elements sets her art apart from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Kurzweil
Raymond Kurzweil ( ; born February 12, 1948) is an American computer scientist, author, inventor, and futurist. He is involved in fields such as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. He has written books on health, artificial intelligence (AI), transhumanism, the technological singularity, and futurism. Kurzweil is a public advocate for the futurist and transhumanist movements and gives public talks to share his optimistic outlook on life extension technologies and the future of nanotechnology, robotics, and biotechnology. Kurzweil received the 1999 National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the United States' highest honor in technology, from then President Bill Clinton in a White House ceremony. He was the recipient of the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize for 2001. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2001 for the application of technology to improve human-ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Habdallah
Ben is frequently used as a shortened version of the given names Benjamin, Benedict, Bennett or Benson, and is also a given name in its own right. Ben (in he, בֶּן, ''son of'') forms part of Hebrew surnames, e.g. Abraham ben Abraham ( he, אברהם בן אברהם). Bar-, "son of" in Aramaic, is also seen, e.g. Simon bar Kokhba ( he, שמעון בר כוכבא). Ben meaning "son of" is also found in Arabic as ''Ben'' (dialectal Arabic) or ''bin'' (بن), ''Ibn''/''ebn'' (ابن). People with the given name * Ben Adams (born 1981), member of the British boy band A1 * Ben Affleck (born 1972), American Academy Award-winning actor and screenwriter * Ben Ashkenazy (born 1968/69), American billionaire real estate developer * Ben Askren (born 1984), American sport wrestler and mixed martial artist * Ben Banogu (born 1996), American football player * Ben Barba (born 1989), Australian rugby player * Ben Barnes (other), multiple people * Ben Bartch (born 1998), America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Gehry
Frank Owen Gehry, , FAIA (; ; born ) is a Canadian-born American architect and designer. A number of his buildings, including his private residence in Santa Monica, California, have become world-renowned attractions. His works are considered among the most important of contemporary architecture in the 2010 World Architecture Survey, leading '' Vanity Fair'' to call him "the most important architect of our age". He is also the designer of the National Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial. Early life Gehry was born Frank Owen Goldberg on February 28, 1929, in Toronto, Ontario, to parents Sadie Thelma (née Kaplanski/Caplan) and Irving Goldberg. His father was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Russian Jewish parents, and his mother was a Polish Jewish immigrant born in Łódź.''Finding Your Roots'', February 2, 2016, PBS A creative child, he was encouraged by his grandmother, Leah Caplan, with whom he built little cities out of scraps of wood. With these scraps from her husband's hard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Freeman
Betty Freeman (2 June 1921 – 3 January 2009) was an American philanthropist and photographer. Biography Freeman was born in Chicago, Illinois. At age 3, she moved with her parents and two brothers to Brooklyn, later moving to New Rochelle, New York and attending New Rochelle High School. Her father was a chemical engineer who had graduated from the Illinois Institute of Technology, and her mother was a mathematics teacher and graduate of the University of Wisconsin. Freeman was a graduate of Wellesley College (1942), where she majored in English literature with a minor in music. She had originally trained to be a concert pianist, practicing six to eight hours per day for twenty years, but eventually, by the mid-1960s, gave up this dream to pursue concert managing. Following her graduation, she married Stanley Freeman, and the couple had four children. Their marriage ended in divorce. Freeman's second marriage was to the Italian sculptor and painter Franco Assetto (1911 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corinne Fortin
__NOTOC__ Corinne may refer to: Places * Corinne, Saskatchewan, Canada, an unincorporated community * Corinne, Oklahoma, United States, an unincorporated community * Corinne, Utah, United States, a town * Corinne, West Virginia, United States, a census-designated place People and fictional characters * Corinne (name), a given name, including a list of people and fictional characters with the name * Tee Corinne (1943–2006), American photographer, author, and editor * Corinne Kimball, a performer best known as ''Corinne''. Other uses * Corinne (horse), a 19th-century British Thoroughbred racehorse * ''Corinne'', an 1807 novel by Germaine de Staël See also * Corrine (other) * Corrinne, given name * Chorine, a female chorus girl * Corine (other) * Coreen Coreen is a locality in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. The locality is about south west of the state capital, Sydney and north of Melbourne. Coreen is located just past the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Delesalle
René (''born again'' or ''reborn'' in French) is a common first name in French-speaking, Spanish-speaking, and German-speaking countries. It derives from the Latin name Renatus. René is the masculine form of the name (Renée being the feminine form). In some non-Francophone countries, however, there exists the habit of giving the name René (sometimes spelled without an accent) to girls as well as boys. In addition, both forms are used as surnames (family names). René as a first name given to boys in the United States reached its peaks in popularity in 1969 and 1983 when it ranked 256th. Since 1983 its popularity has steadily declined and it ranked 881st in 2016. René as a first name given to girls in the United States reached its peak in popularity in 1962 when it ranked 306th. The last year for which René was ranked in the top 1000 names given to girls in the United States was 1988. Persons with the given name * René, Duke of Anjou (1409–1480), titular king of Naples a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farid Chahboub
Farid (Arabic: فَرِيد ''fariyd'', ''farīd''), also spelt Fareed or Ferid and accented Férid, is an Arabic and Persian masculine personal name or surname meaning "unique, singular ("the One"), incomparable". For many communities, including in the Middle East, the Balkans, North Africa, and South East Asia, the name Fareed is common across generations. Given name Farid * Farid Abboud, Lebanese Ambassador * Farid F. Abraham, scientist * Farid Alakbarli, Azerbaijani researcher *Farid Azarkan (born 1971), Dutch politician of Moroccan descent * Farid al-Atrash (1910-1974), Syrian Egyptian singer, music composer, and actor * Farid ad-Din Attar, Iranian Sufi poet * Farid Bang (born Farid Hamed El Abdellaoui in 1986), German rapper of Moroccan-Spanish descent * Farid Esack, South African anti-apartheid activist and Muslim scholar *Fariduddin Ganjshakar, 12th-century Punjabi Muslim mystic * Farid Ghadry, Syrian political activist *Farid Kamil, Malaysian male model turned actor *Far ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Berger (art Dealer)
Michael Berger (born 1 December 1990) is an Austrian footballer who plays for SV Allerheiligen. References Austrian men's footballers Austrian Football Bundesliga players 1990 births Living people Grazer AK players 1. Wiener Neustädter SC (2008) players Wolfsberger AC players Floridsdorfer AC players Men's association football defenders {{austria-footy-defender-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yves Bazillou
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Yves may refer to: * Yves, Charente-Maritime, a commune of the Charente-Maritime department in France * Yves (given name), including a list of people with the name * ''Yves'' (single album), a single album by Loona * ''Yves'' (film), a 2019 French film See also * Yves Tumor, U.S. musician * * Eve (other) * Evette (other) * Yvette (other) * Yvon (other) * Yvonne (other) Yvonne is a female given name. Yvonne may also refer to: * Yvonne (band), a 1993—2002 Swedish group featuring Henric de la Cour * Yvonne (cow) a German cow that escaped and was missing for several weeks in 2011 * ''Yvonne'' (musical), a 1926 We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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