"Celebrity is created solely from capitalist causes – an attempt to extract huge sums of money from – well, a human being, who – you know – represents tremendous beauty or other qualities that we in Western culture regard as status. But we are all equal, and it is modern bullying when famous people are pursued by crowds."

A conversation with Nick Knight.

“I am interested in concrete memories only to a certain degree; I am way more interested in the manipulation of those memories. This is where imagination comes into play. How can you get to something else from a memory you have? I find that more interesting. There are however, some memories I have from the war, for example, that can be seen in some of my films. Very specific images that are fixed in my memory and I have tried to reconstruct in some of the films.” A conversation with Carlos Saura

He deals in constant deconstruction of art, entertainment and technology. He is among the pioneers who developed the Burning Man phenomenon. Kal Spelletich is a robotics genius who commutes between Hollywood and Silicon Valley – and also the uncrowned king of t he hi-tech underground.

“If you are trying to convince a particular person about something – the more information you have about that person and their interests and vulnerabilities, the more possible you will succeed in convincing them,” says Noam Chomsky referring to Big Data and propaganda in a digital era.