Every year, Eyebeam, the arts and technology center I founded, honors someone who helps celebrate or perpetuate freedom and creativity. We do this because freedom and creativity can't be honored enough - and indeed aren't. Anyone involved in art or technology -- anyone trying to do something new -- knows that freedom and creativity go together.
True creativity isn't possible without freedom of thought; and true freedom is the result of a creative spark. Yet, there are many powerful forces...
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