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The Institute of Art and Ideas (IAI) is a not-for-profit organisation, which aims to create an open, vibrant intellectual culture through events and online video broadcasting. The IAI hosts two annual festivals: HowTheLightGetsIn and Crunch at the globe in Hay. The globe was recently described as "Hay’s answer to The Groucho Club". Since 2009, talks, debates and performances hosted by the festivals have been available for free viewing online, through IAI TV. ==HowTheLightGetsIn: the Philosophy and Music Festival at Hay== HowTheLightGetsIn is the world's largest philosophy and music festival hosted by the Institute of Art and Ideas.〔 The event takes place over 10 days and features more than 350 events. It aims "to get philosophy out of the academy and into people's lives" by bringing together philosophers, writers, academics and musicians for debate, talks, music and late night parties. Previous speakers include Vince Cable, Philip Pullman, Helena Kennedy, Bryan Eno, Bianca Jagger, Martin Amis and many more. HowTheLightGetsIn 2012 'Uncharted Territory: Progress for a New Era' Last year’s festival sought to question existing notions of progress through an exploration of issues surrounding political, economic and ethical advance in the West. By acknowledging the uncertainty of the future and its values, do we need to establish new ideas of progress or is such a suggestion inherently flawed? It was held in Hay-on-Wye and ran between 31 May and 10 June 2012,〔http://www.howthelightgetsin.org〕 during which time there were almost five hundred sessions staged across the site’s five venues. Amongst the speakers on the festival’s programme were musician Brian Eno, founder of Glastonbury festival Michael Eavis, literary theorist and critic Terry Eagleton and independent scientist and inventor James Lovelock. Musical highlights included performances from Charlotte Church, Emmy the Great, and Jeffrey Lewis and the Junkyard, as well as a twelve-hour painting marathon from artist Stella Vine to accompany a performance by alternative rock band The Chapman Family. London's Open Gallery, an institution dedicated to the medium of video painting, also staged a series works by filmmaker Roz Mortimer entitled, ‘Sites of Memory’. HowTheLightGetsIn 2011 ‘New Gods: Icons and Ideas in a Changed World’ 2011's HowtheLightGetsIn questioned whether the great narratives that have built and sustained the West under threat and, if so, what are the new gods that will replace them? Speakers at the festival included critical theorist Leela Gandhi, Times columnist David Aaronovitch, poet Simon Armitage, New Statesman culture editor Jonathan Derbyshire and screenwriter Jez Butterworth. Cultural highlights ranged from the likes of Ghostpoet, Mount Kimbie and The Correspondents, to comedy and the screening of documentaries from around the world with BBC Four. HowTheLightGetsIn 2010 ‘Being Human’ The 2010 festival posed the questions: What is it to be alive? What is essential to our humanity and what is peripheral? What is truly important in life? Author of Politics of Fear Frank Furedi, filmmaker David Bond, award-winning author Philip Pullman and Labour politician Jon Cruddas, were amongst the speakers on the line up. London’s Open Gallery, dedicated to the medium of video painting, explored the boundary between the human and the natural. The Wellcome Trust Identity Project presented an exhibition and two days of events on the topic of Identity. Notably, The School of Life hosted a series of philosophy breakfasts with leading thinkers over the 10-day festival. Radio 1’s Huw Stephens and John Rostron, the duo behind the Sŵn Festival, curated a night of cutting-edge music, which was accompanied by live performances from Johnny Flynn, Cate le Bon and Radio 1’s Bethan Elfyn. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Institute of Art and Ideas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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