for me, the bus idea is selfish reasons, an excuse to make an endless stream of short-lived not overly-thought-through one-off work that might mean some things to some people. i grew up in a small town in Taranaki and i still remember what it felt like when something interesting happened there.
it's disjoint from the 'lab' idea though. they have different aims, different goals. > 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/ > -- http://frey.co.nz _______________________________________________ Ada_list mailing list [email protected] http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/
