While surveillance-themed artistic activity has surged in the United States since 9/11, European creative types have been crafting works in this vein since the '80s.
Timberg is right that this newly democratic surge of artistic creation and discourse offers no swift road to an income.
The surge in artistic filmmaking from East Asia in the nineteen-eighties and nineties yielded one director of an uncompromisingly daring aestheticism, Tsai Ming-Liang, who was born in Malaysia but has long been based in Taiwan.
My point is simply to suggest that Swanberg is in the midst of an extraordinary surge of artistic creation and invention; the work that he's putting out is powerful and modern, but it's modern in classic ways, ways that should register even with those who have (unfairly) little patience for the look and feel of ultra-low-budget filmmaking.
Several factors are driving the surge in artistic creativity, global collector interest and rising prices, said Rico Franses, director of art collections and galleries at the American University of Beirut.
Since then there has been a surge in artistic biennials cropping up all over the world, from Bucharest, Romania, to Busan, South Korea approximately 40 according to most art-world rosters.
When the Phoenix shut down two weeks ago, after 48 years as an institution in the Boston political and artistic landscape, the internet surged with remembrances from the writers who had passed through its doors from Charlie Pierce to Susan Orlean.
When asked to explain the surge, Mark Russell, the artistic director and producer of Under the Radar, laughed and ventured a made-to-order explanation.
Fort Collins, nestled in the foothills, saw a certain surge in the mountain and artistic crowds, led partly by the community's university atmosphere.
At a time when record sales are plummeting, the reasons for the memoir surge seem to be personal and artistic as well as commercial.
Cairo is an exciting place to be: despite the government's crackdown on public space and freedom of expression there has been a surge in entrepreneurship as well as artistic, cultural and musical activity.
