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Michael Morris, co-director of arts collective ArtAngel, has some excellent high concepts for media in the New Year.

When asked for his New Year’s wishes by The Daily Telegraph, Morris said,

I’d like to see mini-revolutions in broadcasting. The world’s leading advertising agencies using their expertise and technology to promote complex feelings in between lifestyle products during commercial breaks. Adverts for forgiveness, doubt, hope, envy, attachment and loss. I’d like to see artists (particularly poets) doing the weather. Very subjectively.

If Morris’s ideas sound rather high-minded it’s worth noting that there are already artistic responses to the news in place. A few months back we wrote about ‘art blogging the news’ in Holland where a collective is inviting artistic responses to news published online in the daily paper. Surely an apt response to the daily dark absurdity which the news has become?

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