As detailed last week's email, we're holding our first full AGM this
coming Sunday (October 11) from 4.30 – 6pm.
Immediately after the AGM there will be an election for three
positions on the ADA board, and we need nominations for potential
board members before the meeting. All ADA members (list subscribers
for more than 6 months, who have posted to the list or participated in
a symposium), are eligible to be board members. You can nominate
yourself or someone else, and each nomination needs a seconder.
The board oversees a range of projects intended to support and promote
'digital' art from Aotearoa. This includes our regular symposia, and
in the last year or so it has included the Aotearoa Digital Arts
Reader (edited by Stella and Su), the Cloudland exhibition and book
launch at ISEA 2008, and an equipment loan scheme in partnership with
the Physics Room that will be announced at the AGM.
As a board member you need to be available for semi-regular skype
meetings (so people in other countries may need to be prepared for
some weird time-shifting), which increase in number leading up to
specific projects like symposia and AGMs. You also need to be willing
to join in with writing funding applications, acquittals and other
bits + pieces in a fairly collaborative manner, to work on organising
the symposia, and to come up with ideas for new projects that you are
willing and able to actually make happen. The current board has spent
a lot of time and energy being the ADA board, and we anticipate that
this will continue to be the case...
To propose a nomination you need to write about 50 words explaining
why you (or someone else) would be a great board member. You need to
send this to our returning officer Zoe Drayton (who is not a board
member) by Friday October 9 at 5pm: [email protected]
Each nomination needs a seconder, so you need to arrange for someone
else to email Zoe to support the nomination. Please include the email
address you are subscribed to the list under.
The seconded nomination blurbs will be compiled and sent to the list
before the AGM starts, and then voting will open after the AGM. All
ADA members are eligible to vote, and we will post the minutes and
relevant documents presented at the AGM to the ADA website to enable
those who were unable to attend the meeting to make an informed vote.
Voting will also be carried out by email through our impartial
returning office Zoe.
This AGM marks an important step in opening the ADA board business and
membership up for the first time, and we encourage all of you to
participate through nominating, seconding, voting, and attending the
AGM in whatever way you can.
We will post more detail on the AGM itself later in the week.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Nominations Open: right now
Nominations Close: Friday 9 October 5pm
AGM: Sunday 11 October from 4.30 to
6pm
Email Voting Opens: Sunday 11 October 6pm
Email Voting Closes: Friday 16 October 6pm
Appointments Announced: Monday 19 October
First Board Meeting: Friday 30 October
The Aotearoa Digital Arts Trust
Zita Joyce, Stella Brennan, Su Ballard, Douglas Bagnall, Janine
Randerson_______________________________________________
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[email protected]
http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/
