Hi all, here are the notes from Sunday in glorious Plaintext. Thanks to everyone who made it. There are a number of conversations that it would be good to continue onlist, so please read on: *
Ada meet Sunday March 18th 2007 ***** Introductions *** Su Ballard – head of Theory at Otago Polytechnic – working with Caroline McCaw on digital strategies within the institution Janine Randerson – teaching Theory and Media Studies at Unitec. Moving to Melbourne to start Phd with Sean Cubitt, looking at information and atmospheric phenomena. Sarah Munro – artist Alex Monteith –New Head of Moving Image at MIT School of Arts. Wanting to open the department up to possibilities beyond video. Frances Joseph – Working at AUT. Now doing PHD and developing Fashion Technology Research Centre and Creative Media Laboratory with MIC and other partners. Trudy Lane – collaborating with Ian Clothier, developing a Research Centre based at the Western Institute of Technology, organizer of scanz residencies, producing publications Canadian/nz research centre for interdisciplinary creativity Sally MacIntyre – freelance writer Helga Fassonaki – based in LA. At the last meeting. musician San Hamilton – musician and artist, filmmaker. Luka Prinčič – from Slovenia. An ADA Lurker. Working with Adam. Working with Pure Data. Looking for open projects. Adam Hyde – lives in Amsterdam. On way home from Antarctica. New media artist – focus changing to free software/ utility based. Has just sold low-res van looking for a new one. Julian Priest – living in Wanganui. Working on wireness networks (consume.net) building alternative free wireless structures in London, going into media art/advocacy/activism Now baking bread. Zita Joyce – Doing her Phd re radio spectrum / artists’ use of radio technologies. Working on mapping the nz radio spectrum. Stella Brennan – artist and writer teaching at AUT, started ADA with Sean Cubitt. Pushing the ada bucket along. Conversation On: *** “the book” *** Stella and Su working with funding from Cnz, Otago Polytech, hopefully AUT. Tracing history of new media practice through tracing the development of the ADA network. Media lab *** Trudy – conversation developing out of scanz – lot of ideas Adam – trying to recognize the appropriate form for a media lab for new Zealand – very distributed, overseas labs – some chaotic (e.g. deckspace in London), others more organised, as in the Netherlands. What is it that ‘we’ could want here? Zita – imporatant to acknowledge ourselves as a distributed network – perhaps with different kinds of nodes in different places. – as a site of information – somewhere to go to find out what’s happening. Janine – not appropriate to be a resource base, to be more flexible. – to be able to mobilize other people’s resources: epiphytic Su – not based in an architecture Julian – other networks? Linux? Website as a resource hub? Julian – physical spaces – in Jossland in the Netherlands, a drop- in self-help centre in basement of a sports hall turned into a province-wide wireless network serving 15 000 households. In Berlin – seabase – reconstructing a spaceship… hackerlab – coders and media artists – backspace, media shed. Physical spaces without poplulation density – containers, vans, movable spaces, a traveling infrastructure – regular meetings, time together, events. Wireless networking event – no-one travels beyond their region – reducing costs to attend. Su – trust facilitates, rather than is something. Not fixing anything too early. Zita – likes idea of traveling national symposium – like to think that similar meetings could happen elsewhere. Julian - Stringing together things that are already there – making sure that members are present at different events – Su – should have been more identifiably ada at medianz. Adam – physical space helps to break out of closed social circle – mumma in croatia – draws community in. people work within that space. Julian – want to have a shop front as part of next project – don’t want to be locked away behind the scenes. Zita – openness of an actual physical space – Audio Foundation office in St Kevins arcade, part of audio foundation archiving project – access point – Alex – silent observer of ADA – small group – posts are relevant to subscribers – members are outside of institutions, but connected to them. Su – we end up teaching to support ourselves – have access to resources Alex – people are connected to so many institutions here – Frances – discussing development of Creative Media Lab with AUT and MIC Su – is this something that is operating nationally? Frances – yes, depending on partner institutions. Zita – definitely worth discussing. Julian – retrospective funding? The projects where I’ve had to wait for funding have been problematic. Frances – artists don’t access research and technology funding. Su – output ethos is a problem – how can we shift to a more exploratory model? Su – bring visitors over and work them too hard. General consensus, partnerships good. AUT project good. Issue is infrastructure. Need to use institutions. Opening of conversation about conference. **** Putting a series of conferences back to back? Will continue on-line. Bringing international people?? Su will continue conversations with Physics Room. Initial signing and toasting of the (nearly finished) Trust Document. **** _______________________________________________ Ada_list mailing list [email protected] http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/
