“Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences. (Roy Ascott’s phrase.) That solves a lot of problems: we don’t have to argue whether photographs are art, or whether performances are art, or whether Carl Andre’s bricks or Andrew Serranos’s piss or Little Richard’s ‘Long Tall Sally’ are art, because we say, ‘Art is something that happens, a process, not a quality, and all sorts of things can make it happen.’ … [W]hat makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside you — so the value of the work lies in the degree to which it can help you have the kind of experience that you call art.”
- Brian Eno

TRUTH!

Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences. (Roy Ascott’s phrase.) That solves a lot of problems: we don’t have to argue whether photographs are art, or whether performances are art, or whether Carl Andre’s bricks or Andrew Serranos’s piss or Little Richard’s ‘Long Tall Sally’ are art, because we say, ‘Art is something that happens, a process, not a quality, and all sorts of things can make it happen.’ … [W]hat makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside you — so the value of the work lies in the degree to which it can help you have the kind of experience that you call art.

- Brian Eno

TRUTH!

Speaking about the websites we’ve done lately, I have to talk about Peter Mountford. Peter is one of the greatest people we’ve met this last year. No only is he an amazing, Washington State Book Award-winning author and teacher, he’s also been incredibly supportive of Samudre Media. That sexy author photo you see above was taken by yours truly, and on top of designing his website, we’ll also be creating the book trailer for his upcoming book, The Dismal Science (Tin House Books, 2014). We’re reading through it right now in order to get an idea of how to tell the story of this story, and we’re loving it. 

And if you haven’t read Peter’s work yet, head on over to his site and click on some links. If you’re in the area, take a class with him!

Yay Peter!

We just finished a website for Professor Sonora Jha, promoting both her and her debut novel. We’re really looking forward to get started on her book trailer. Her novel, Foreign, is set in Seattle and Maharashtra, a region in India that Vasant has filmed. His footage from that area is really beautiful and we’re excited to see it become part of telling this story that Sonora has crafted.   High-res

We just finished a website for Professor Sonora Jha, promoting both her and her debut novel. We’re really looking forward to get started on her book trailer. Her novel, Foreign, is set in Seattle and Maharashtra, a region in India that Vasant has filmed. His footage from that area is really beautiful and we’re excited to see it become part of telling this story that Sonora has crafted.