The show is produced by GREY GOOSE (
Iconoclasts), in partnership with JASH, a Group Nine Company (Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Late Show with David Letterman), and The Sunshine Company (Gucci Chime for Change, Balmain Wonderlabs).
This summary of Leslie Brubaker and John Haldon's Byzantium in the
Iconoclast Era has the same primary purpose as that longer book: to show that what Byzantine sources and most modern scholars have said about iconoclasm is false.
An image of idolatry, the
iconoclasts seemed to sense, can still be an idol.
In his exploration of
iconoclasts, Berns explains complex biological actions of the brain and body, ties them to experiments to reinforce the scientific principle at hand and then offers up a personal sketch of a real person who exemplifies particular iconoclastic traits.
Again: who are the
iconoclasts? And who is protecting images?
Check it out if you like: Randy Newman, Tom Lehrer, and other pianistic
iconoclasts.
"Panic," the new show from the inventive designer and the gleeful
iconoclasts at theater company Improbable, does for plain brown paper what Carmen Miranda did for the banana.
Gregory Berns, "is that
iconoclasts are able to do things that others say can't be done, because
iconoclasts perceive things differently than other people." Berns is the Distinguished Chair of Neuroeconomics at Emory University, where he is a professor in the psychiatry and economics departments, and at the Goizueta Business School.
The 27-year-old Wimbledon champion and World No1 said: "I was so happy to meet Wyclef and work with him on our
Iconoclasts episode.
Sundance Channel is reportedly home to "
Iconoclasts" and "Big Ideas for a Small Planet", as well as acquired series such as "Kath and Kim" and "Slings and Arrows" and a broad selection of feature films and documentaries.
If you are one of many who relish all things Misha, don't miss the episode of
Iconoclasts (on the Sundance Channel) featuring him and chef Alice Waters, his good friend.
The Sundance Channel's
Iconoclasts series surely came up with a match one would not think was made in heaven when it put poet Maya Angelou and comedian Dave together for an episode in late November.
The convergence of the two disciplines and the way they influence each other are themes that have gained currency over the past three decades--ever since Frank Gehry deconstructed his Santa Monica house and the Japanese
iconoclasts Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo defied the dictates of Paris with their ready-to-wear collections of tattered, shredded garments.
