About
Culturebot.org is an online magazine devoted to contemporary performance and the live arts: dance, theater, music and more.
Part weblog, part gossip column, part arts journal, part whatever comes to mind, Culturebot is about life in and around the arts.
Culturebot launched in December 2003 and was initially made possible from a grant to Performance Space 122 by the National Performance Network.
Culturebot was envisioned and created by Andy Horwitz, who is still running the show. (New contributors are always welcomed!)
The original design was created with the absolutely invaluable help of Dan Rhatigan, Designer Extraordinaire, and the technological assistance of Matt Kingston, the King of Code.
This is Culturebot 2.1
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ABOUT ANDY
Andy Horwitz is a writer/performer/producer/curator/arts consultant/man-about-town in NYC.
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From 2002-2007 he worked at Performance Space 122, first as marketing director and then as producer, and has worked as a consultant with small theaters and independent artists. He teaches workshops on press, marketing and career development at the artist service organization The Field. He has served on many panels including the The Six Points Fellowship, HERE Arts Center’s Resident Artist program, and LMCC’s Swing Space program. He has been an adviser to the Carol Tambor Foundation’s Best of Edinburgh Award and is co-curator of Prelude08, a festival of innovative theater at the Martin E. Segal Theater Center of the Graduate Center at CUNY. Prior to becoming a full-time arts administrator, Andy worked as an interactive producer at various advertising agencies, most notably Fallon Worldwide. Andrew is a graduate of Northwestern University. He is originally from Baltimore, MD.
Andy is a long-time blogger. He conceived of and created The WYSIWYG Talent Show, (with curator and long-time blog pal Chris Hampton) the first-ever all-blogger series of readings and performances. . His writing has appeared frequently at Nerve.com, Heeb Magazine and other outlets. His solo shows (Potty Mouth, B.F.D. and Naked & Famous) have played to sold-out houses and been called, among other things, “high-octane, raucous comedy.”
In the spring and summer of 2005 and Andy ran for Mayor of New York, which was a performance project documented online at andyformayor.org. Exploring the construction of mediated identity in a political context, this was the latest iteration of a series of “autobiographical” performances created by a deliberately unreliable narrator.
Andy has performed at many venues including P.S. 122, Dixon Place, HERE, Galapagos, the L.E.S. Festival of the Arts, DUMBA Collective, Nuyorican Poet’s Cafe, The Knitting Factory, CBGBs, CBGB 313 Gallery, Partnership for Jewish Life Poetry Slam and the Read by Night series,The Gershwin Hotel Theater, The Realness & Rhythms Series, Jackie 60 and Verbal Abuse at Mother, Cheryl B.’s Atomic Reading Series and Rachel Kramer Bussel’s In The Flesh series at Happy Ending to name just a few. He has appeared in various comedy shows including Jon Friedman’s Rejection Show and Welcome to Our Week with Nick Kroll and Jessi Klein.
From 1990-1995 he lived in Seattle and under the influence of the burgeoning Seattle music scene began doing performances in clubs: performance art, spoken word and poetry. He was a Seattle Poetry Slam Champion and performed at Lollapalooza at various West Coast dates. Through his involvement in the local music scene he became involved with Home Alive, an organization devoted to raising awareness about violence against women, and performed at many of their benefits. His spoken word track 4th of July was included on a benefit album for Home Alive alongside such artists as Nirvana, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam. That track (in an alternative version) can be downloaded here alongside other decidedly lo-fi and occasionally out of tune experiments.
After his spoken word tour in the summer of 1995 he decided to move to NYC permanently that fall.
Andy has hosted and curated several reading/performance series in New York City including Readings-A-Go-Go at Bouche Bar (with C. Bard Cole), the Tongue in Cheek reading series at The Living Room, Variety Verite at Solo Arts Group and a Valentine’s Day Reading for Nerve.com called Nerve @ Mother.
FURTHER ADVENTURES TO COME!
