Marry ME: Steve Lambert

I have just come back from a lecture and was move enough to have to post here now. Steve Lambert was today's guest and he was fantastic!


Simmer Down Sprinter is one of my favorite works that he showedIt's an arcade game that involves two sprinters competing but the trick is, the higher your stress level, the slower you will run. Lambert is questioning why video games encourage so much aggression in competition. Perhaps sometimes it is advantageous not to care? Hilarious and yes, I found myself bursting into uncontrollable laughter when he played the video of this game.

His lecture meant a lot to me especially because so much he said resonated in me and for once I thought "wow I'm normal kinda". He was fixated on the idea that art can be anything, something that I've been taught since my very first art class but when he said stand-up comedy, speeches, and ideas motivated him way more than any other artwork could I felt normal again. The feeling I get from watching a great movie, seeing a great act, or listening to a great stories is often incomparable to seeing a renaissance painting or a world-famous building.

Great Ideas:

1. Hacking: identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities in existing systems to hijack their intended use

2. Creating temporary utopias (he suggested that longterm utopias often end up crumbling into fascism)

3. Open Art- using the already very popular Firefox plug-in adblock, in place of the white place that is left by adblock should be curated art pieces

4. life of service, vow of poverty... generosity, service, empowerment

Well everything he said was just great and he was a wonderful speaker that made the atmosphere super casual and I was the most comfortable I've ever been at a lecture.



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Yea add Steve Lambert to THE LIST with Roel Wouters, John Bowe, and Bjork.