Author: Hanson Hosein
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My conversation for the moment is now preserved for as long as time permits within the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress. This StoryCorps interview with Charles Douglas III, recorded recently in Selma, Alabama — just before we headed to Washington D.C. for the presidential inauguration as part of a new documentary project…
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I’ve been pondering the viability of creative work in the face of artificial intelligence’s rapid growth. I’ve made a living from original thinking, often represented in audio and visual media. When so much can be so easily replicated and mimicked by the likes Sora and Stable Diffusion, what is the essence of human creativity that…
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I produced this simple audio kiosk project in historic Selma, Alabama by blending a powerful storytelling experience with unobtrusive technology. Three voting rights heroes’ eyewitness testimonials of crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge on “Bloody Sunday” in March 1965 are now freely accessible outdoors. No screens or sign-ins required, just press the button to listen to…
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As I toured battlefields, museums and historic ruins recently in Northern Europe, I was struck by this “big” idea, which crystallized particularly in Berlin. That city was devastated by two totalitarian constructs: Nazism and Marxism. For such extreme power to have consolidated to that disruptive degree, I contend that equally powerful stories were required. I’m…
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