Formation 2008 Website www.iai.tv | Founder Hilary Lawson | |
Location Hay-on-Wye, Wales, U.K. | ||
The Institute of Art and Ideas is a not-for-profit, charitable organisation founded in 2008 in London. Its programming includes the world's largest philosophy and music festival, HowTheLightGetsIn and the online channel IAI TV, where talks are posted online for free distribution, under the slogan "Philosophy for our times."
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The IAI's main offering, HowTheLightGetsIn, is held annually in Hay-on-Wye at the globe at Hay. The IAI is led by its founding director, the British post-realist philosopher and former broadcaster Hilary Lawson.
IAI TV
IAI TV is an online channel where the debates and talks curated by the IAI are released and made available online. Subjects include philosophy, science, politics and art.
In September 2016 the videos had received in excess of 670,000 views, reaching over 1,000,000 people each year. Hilary Lawson in an interview in 2016:
IAI Academy
IAI Academy is an educational platform of free online courses in philosophy, politics, art and science. Since September 2016, new courses have been published on a monthly basis. Open Culture cited it for helping foster "a progressive and vibrant intellectual culture".
Philosophy for Our Times
Beginning in September 2016, the IAI has been publishing it's weekly podcast, Philosophy for our Times, featuring the debates from HowTheLightGetsIn.
Crunch: the Art and Music Festival at Hay
Crunch was an annual Art and Music festival that took place each November in Hay-on-Wye, Wales. It was held by the Institute of Art and Ideas, a non-profit organization which hosts a number of cultural events throughout the year. Crunch brought together the world's leading artists, curators and critics to debate the questions that lie at the core of contemporary art. The 3-day festival featured talk sessions and debates, live music, performance acts, creative workshops, art exhibitions and late night parties.