Just in case a warm-hearted patron of the interface arts is reading this: if money really were no object, I would spend more time doing art in general.
Frayn's interest in the interface between art and reality had been heightened by writing his play Copenhagen, about the wartime meeting in Denmark between two physicists, the Jewish Niels Bohr and the German nationalist Werner Heisenberg.
Also, she is interested in the interface between art and science as it relates to early modern natural history and medical anatomy.
But what began as just one more deal at the murky interface of art and commerce turned rapidly into a full-blown debate embracing some familiar ogres: American cultural imperialism, along with less muscular depictions of Britons proud of their past but cringing from the shadows of the Great American Novel.
He wasn't just holding drumsticks, of course: he was holding an interface of art and science; he was holding a societal paradigm; he was holding a couple of long wooden tickets to a strange glowing land built of rhythm and sweat.
"The interface between art and technology is becoming more sophisticated now and that means people are not as impressed with advanced technology for technology's sake," says Beth. "That's a great place to be, to really look at this form.
Hickey is eager to pursue other projects at the interface of art and science.
Evidently, this early interest in the interface between art and the public (and the middlemen involved) propelled him far.
At the interface, medical art concerns the clinical practice by which a physician manages the unpredictability of individual patients while medical science concerns general trends in observed population outcomes.
The essays are certain to raise eyebrows, evoke 'Ahas!', and stimulate further debate about computers, user interfaces, design, art, culture, society, and technology.
