I'm on my lunchbreak from a 'conference' at the Video Studio at the Duderstadt Center. It's called Arts & Minds, and is supposed to be thoughts and conversations about art and its intersection with science and humanities. From their promotional literature: Please join us in the Duderstadt Video Center this November 1– 2 for a playful, experimental “learning studio” in which leading international artists, scientists, scholars, activists, and students will explore the interactions of art and mind. There is no audience for Arts & Minds: everyone participates. Everyone participates? Excuse me? I just sat on my butt for 2 1/2 hours - literally, cross-legged on the bare floor - being talked at (and danced at) (and video-ed at). There was 20 ...