Miranda July has made a splash as a filmmaker, fiction writer, artist, actress and a musician. This Saturday she's participating in the second annual Brainwave Festival at the Rubin Museum. The festival is in the third of its ten weeks where it explores how art, music and meditation affect the human mind. July will be discussing both the spontaneous and the premeditated aspects of performance in creating her film Me and You and Everyone We Know and writing the short story collection No One Belongs Here More Than You with Columbia University psychologist George Bonanno. She talked to us about what it's like wearing so many hats, how nothing in New York seems to exist by the time you actually get there and about why it's all right to avoid anything that people write about you. more ›