“Over time, however, critics have raised concerns that this commitment was proving to be more performative than profound.” In a deeply reported piece, Gelt takes a look at the case of Long Beach Opera and the chain of events that led to the departure of three Black members from the company - including the associate artistic director as well as the director of the 2022 season’s opening show. In the wake of that, many organizations hired artists of color and presented works centered on those experiences, reports The Times’ Jessica Gelt. The racial reckoning of 2020, which brought calls for social justice and racial equality across just about every sector of society - cultural, academic, political and commercial - also played out in the world of theater. That beer at Dodger Stadium? Maybe it can wait five minutes for a bartender - and an experience that will make us more human in the end. “We have to remember the value of those little encounters as we automate them all.” “It’s seemingly trivial encounters that are important to society and their health,” curator Rory Hyde, who was then with the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, told me back in 2017. And the pandemic, with its social distancing requirements, has certainly accelerated that.
Those simple transactions create a kind of human glue. I go to clear my head between deadlines and hear about the mischief the owner’s dog has been up to. I don’t go to my local mercadito simply because I need a Diet Coke. It’s also reshaping the way we interact with other people - if we are interacting with them at all. In 2017, I wrote a lengthy story for the Atlantic about how automation was reshaping architecture. Though, to be certain, the long-term effects are still unclear.īut it will definitely be bad for humans. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.Īs we enter Pandemic 3.0 - 3.5? 4.0? I’ve lost track of the releases - many of these sorts of digital interfaces and automated systems are liable to stick around for the long haul.
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