Jeffrey Greenberg - Inventivity

I created an important international performance art journal, The Act, and a weekly artist's forum for sharing performance art, The Performance Project, hosted weekly in PS122 and The Franklin Furnace in New York City during the 1980's and through mid-1990's.

These were wily efforts to make and present challenging performance art and discuss it critically and ethically.

It was created with the essential help of fellow artists and friends, as well as through money I raised from a variety of prestigious institutions, foundations, and individuals like the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council for the Arts, and the Performance Foundation. The small print run was distributed to newstands nationally and to select bookstores internationally.

I am preserving the journal here where you can read and reference here it online for free: The Act. There you can also find out about my efforts to preserve it online and keep it available for use, study, and reflection.

I am seeking to archive the physical journal and it's background material as well as our records of performances and work done as the Performance Project. Please contact Jeffrey Greenberg if you can help in this matter...

I play the piano, keyboards, and west African drums. I enjoy playing and making music inspired by modern classical composers, carnatic traditions, west african traditions, jazz and others.

Lately, I'm spending a lot of time decomposing Terry Riley's performances from the mid-70's and 80's, his solo keyboard performances, which I've heard live and in recording. I'm also working on music that uses west african rhythms and improvisational ideas.

This work is entirely solo, improvised, and private. But when I'm 'ready' I'll put up some recordings with the hope of finding folks to play with and to perform larger scale music together.

I am very interested in trying to "Fix the News". Journalism and news distribution is broken in many ways. I see myself both as an artist & and a proven technologist who can help push towards technologies that better support truth making & and that better anchors journalist practice in truth. I have written some on this and given a couple of talks at UCSB and at Twitter (before Musk's naive and unconstructive efforts there).

Generally, I am interested in strategies for supporting and grounding truth and democracy so that they can meet the challenges that the internet and social media have created by enabling people to have near-zero-cost content production and distribution.

I believe that part of the solution lies in further technology and another part involves changing journalism and journalistic practice.

I have several patents awarded and some applied for in the areas of ultrasound imaging, voice technology applications, computer vision, and machine learning. I also have experiences writing computer languages and operating systems. I also worked for Harold Cohen between 1979-1982, now known as "the first AI artist" producing the 1.0 version of software that prints the Aaron "AI" drawings and have been credited in shows of his work at the Brooklyn Museum 1982 and the Whitney in 2025. (Harold Cohen's posthumous show at at the Whitney Museum of American Art). I was gifted a lovely AI drawing by Harold and have a small collection of some of his early work.

I'm also an experienced leader as an executive and team leader with teams of more than two hundred and budgets in the tens of millions.

My consulting information is at jeffrey-greenberg.com