News and Updates on Quantum Partners and Projects

• Quantum Principal Inteviewed For Hollywood 2.0 Podcast

September 06, 2011: 

Peter Katz and Rich Silverman interview Quantum Principal Ava Seave on their podcast for Hollywood 2.0.   Seave was interviewed to explain the focus of “Curse of the Mogul: What’s Wrong with the World’s Leading Media Companies,” co-authored with Jonathon Knee and Bruce Greenwald.  “Curse of the Mogul” is available now in paperback from Amazon and other outlets.

When asked by the hosts which type of mogul would best be served to read the book, Seave replied, “Most of the guys that we talk about started out being smart guys with good companies.  They specialized in an area, and made a lot of money in that area.  They read their own press, and decided they could go ahead and use their genius to go to other areas that they didn’t really know very well.”

You can listen to the entire interview on Hollywood 2.0 website here.

• Quantum Principal Joins Faculty At Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

August 30, 2011: 

Quantum Principal Christine Arrington has joined the faculty of the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University in Logan, Utah as a Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of Strategic Marketing and Brand Management.

The Huntsman School is the oldest continuously operating business college in the Western United States and one of the oldest in the nation. The stated goals of the Huntsman School of Business are "to be a career accelerator for its students and an engine of economic growth for its communities, the state, the nation and the world". The Huntsman School focuses on four areas of educational development. These areas have been entitled the "four pillars" and they include analytical rigor, entrepreneurial spirit, ethical leadership and global vision.

• Quantum Principal at “Proposals for a New Front Page” Exhibition

August 22, 2011: 

Quantum Media Principal Ava Seave is an invited participant to the “What Matters Now?  Proposals for a New Front Page” exhibition at the Aperture Gallery, scheduled to start September 17, 2011.  The exhibition addresses the impact of the decreased reliance on a traditional front page as a common reference point in the digital media age.

Ten years post-9/11, at a time when we are more overloaded with information than ever but cannot access it in a coherent manner, Aperture will create a visual café for collective social engagement with the question: What Matter’s Now? and turn it into an evolving exhibition space. During a two-week period Aperture will turn itself “inside out,” letting participants engage in the editorial process of weighing questions, ideas, and images, and proposing conceptual and curatorial solutions. Both invited guests and gallery visitors will be asked to participate. 

The exhibition What Matters Now? Proposals for a New Front Page will combine the crowd sourcing of images and ideas with the curatorial engagement of six experienced individuals, each hosting a table and a conversation within the space, where on corresponding walls each group will present its proposals for the contents of a ‘New Front Page’.  Hosts include a variety of visual image specialists: Wafaa Bilal, Melissa Harris, Stephen Mayes, Joel Meyerowitz, Fred Ritchin (who conceptualized this project) and Deborah Willis.

The Aperture Gallery is located at 547 West 27th Street, 4th floor, New York, N.Y. 10001.  You may read more about the exhibition here.