I'm going to rain on this one too. A bus? Why? You are clutching to the dimensional qualities of the lab, and leaving behind the rationale (which was: a place that is always there to work and meet in; something young people can find; a place to make media-art tourists feel at home). The reason for the box was locatedness; now you've put wheels on it and its rolling away.
Why a bus? What is so big and unitary that requires a bus? People are mentioning arduinos, but you want room for a mainframe. For at least a decade bogans have been performing electronically coordinated convergences. A gathering of 200 cars will coalesce in 5 minutes and stay for half an hour, before evaporating and reappearing somewhere else. They live a networked life. Their life is a networked performance. Meanwhile here are the digital artists aspiring to a bus. So, OK, I get the nostalgia. And the taking-it-to-the-people aspect. As Damian put it: > fill a bus/van with some basic tech and go and confuse smalltownfolk > with new media. But it doesn't work like this anymore. They're not all sitting in the town square waiting for entertainment. They're at home tweaking their facebook profiles. That's including the ones who live on buses. Buses are actually not fun to be on for long. So why not a train? Why not a flash mob? bicycles? boats? backpacks? why not catch public transport? why must it be a lab on wheels? But, you know, I don't really mind. It's not that I want there not to be a bus, like I wanted there not to be a lab. A bus would be good, probably. At worst, harmless. I do wonder, though, if all our relief at reaching consensus hasn't dented our rigour. I'd rather go by helicopter. Douglas _______________________________________________ Ada_list mailing list [email protected] http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/
