Bruce Sterling keynote from Art and Environment conference

A reader writes, "Author and futurist Bruce Sterling wraps-up the 2011 Art + Environment Conference at the Nevada Museum of Art in downtown Reno. 28 minutes of laying it down."

Goddamn I love listening to Chairman Bruce lay it down and pick it up again.

Bruce Sterling Closes the 2011 A+E Conference - Full version

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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Wow. From hi-there-all-you-nice-folks to death, domesticating fire ants, and the meaning of Huckleberry Finn, in 28 minutes. Once again, it’s worth watching Bruce chew tobacco and spit, then wind up and pitch dozens of fastballs for the finale. Thanks, Cory!
http://twitter.com/pampat45 Pam Paterson

and if you ever want to go to a nifty conference, here it is…in Reno.
retchdog

this is the first inspiring video i’ve seen in months. thank you, boingboing. i <3 you and bruce sterling.
pKp

That was intense.

I think I need to watch it again.
chaopoiesis

The debatable assumption here being that art will matter at all in a post peak oil/water/soil/democracy/{yours} society. ”Art as varnish on barbarism” assumes a prosperous barbarism. An alt formulation might be art as flower on a healthy society: making art while the sun shines.
http://rightnetwork.com Jack Reno

Boring is right. This whole theme has been done to death. It is now devolving into the blather so evident in his tone.