David Bryen

🎬 JOIN US NEXT SATURDAY 🎬 LIC Arts Open Film Festival 2026 An evening of Short Films, Art, and creative community in Long Island City. 📍 The Secret Theatre 10-10 44th Avenue, LIC, NY 11101 📅 Saturday, May 16, 2026 🕔 5:00 – 7:00 PM 🎟 FREE EVENT Featuring short films by: • January Yoon Cho @january_yoon_cho_art • David Bryen @davidbryen @madscientistmusiclab • Christen Smith @contemplative.uppercut • Eugenia Pigassiou • Cecilia Kim @cecikim_ • Steven Speliotis @speliotisvideo • Michel, Michael Dominguez-Beddome @mandmdbfilms @micheldbeddome Live performance by @january_yoon_cho_art & @georginibeeni 💃🏻 Join us for screenings, and visionary storytelling from emerging and independent filmmakers/artists. @licartsopen @licartists poster & curated by yours truly @mwavecine ✨ #LICArtOpen #FilmFestival #LICNYC #IndependentFilm #QueensArts #NYCFilm #ExperimentalFilm #FilmCommunity #TheSecretTheatre #shortfilms #nyc #nycfilms

I’m saddened to hear about the passing of Slava Tsukerman, the visionary filmmaker behind the cult classic Liquid Sky. In tribute, I’m sharing a song I wrote that samples a voice from the film, along with video clips from the movie woven into the visuals. Liquid Sky is a 1982 American independent science fiction film directed by Slava Tsukerman and starring Anne Carlisle and Paula E. Sheppard.[1] It debuted at the Montreal Film Festival in August 1982 and was well-received at several film festivals thereafter.[2] It was produced with a budget of $500,000. It became the most successful independent film of 1983, grossing $1.7 million worldwide.[3] The film is seen as heavily influencing a club scene that emerged in the early 2000s in Brooklyn, Berlin, Paris, and London called electroclash.

new Mad Scientist Music Lab song: https://youtu.be/NmHUTowy560Ada Lovelace: A visionary who saw beyond calculations. She understood that Charles Babbage's concepts about the Analytical Engine could lead to the manipulation of symbols, the creation of art, the composition of music, and far more. Lovelace laid the foundation for modern programming, emphasizing the importance of algorithms and computational logic. It is time to recognize the significant contributions she made and the brilliance of her powerful, unconventional mind, which essentially laid much of the groundwork for the origins of artificial intelligence, or AI. At the same time, the MSML song and music video, at times, have an ominous sound and visuals that set a darker tone and cast a shadow over the Lovelace legacy, one viewed as a cautionary historical review and alternative perspective. Queen of the Algorithm highlights how Ada’s pioneering work in computing may not always align with the greater good of humanity. While she envisioned a world where technology enhances creativity and expression, the reality of today's mechanized society raises concerns about the dominance of algorithms and artificial intelligence. Lovelace's insights into programming and automation opened doors to innovations that, while beneficial, can also create an unrelenting dependency on technology. This reliance risks placing humanity in a "techno prison," where algorithms dictate choices and experiences, limiting personal agency and genuine human connection. #womenintech #innovators #AdaLovelace #victorianera #artificialIntelligence

Video and narration sourced from the 1967 film This Is Marshall McLuhan – The Medium Is the Massage. Herbert Marshall McLuhan was a Canadian philosopher and one of the foundational thinkers in modern media theory. In this documentary, McLuhan makes a series of predictions about the world we live in today, like the rise of social media, video calls, and remote work. #marshallmcluhan , #popart #eternalsunshineofthespotlessmind #hauntology #pinkfloyd

Time and length are not the same. We possess infinite time, yet are bound by distance, by flesh, by the fragile reach of human touch. Fear marks the ending. Now marks the beginning. SUBZERO SUPERSONIC BEE — in the key of SEA Insects survive subzero temperatures through one of two evolutionary paths: Some embrace the freeze, enduring the crystallization of their own body fluids. Others avoid it entirely, crafting biological antifreeze to keep winter from claiming them. Honeybees choose neither path. They are not freeze tolerant. They are not freeze avoiding. Lower their body temperature to roughly 7°C, and they slip into hypothermia—they die. Yet honeybees are endotherms, creators of their own heat. Like humans, they warm themselves from within, generating life through the tremor of their flight muscles. And more importantly, they become warm together. They gather into a single living mass, a breathing engine of shared heat. Inside this cluster, bees rotate from the frigid outer edge to the furnace-like core, maintaining motion, maintaining life. Their collective thermodynamics keep them far above freezing even in the heart of winter. In one experiment, when the surrounding air was held at 5°C, the center of the cluster reached 35°C. Even the bees on the outer rim remained near 19°C. The core generally hovers between 30–35°C, even when the world outside falls to –30°C. A superorganism. A subzero symphony. A supersonic hum of survival in the key of life. Humans, like bees, are built to survive—but only as a collective. Our strength begins and ends in each other. /madscientistmusiclab

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Darkness often symbolizes the unknown, the unconscious, secrets, or what is intentionally concealed suggests the ability to bring these hidden aspects into the light, to expose them to scrutiny or understanding.

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