Hi all, Plus "The Travelling Gallery", a "a unique, self-contained, custom-built mobile art gallery, which brings contemporary art exhibitions into communities throughout Scotland".
(Yes, Douglas, it's a bus, although I haven't yet read your full argument to why not a bus...) This has been going for well over ten years (oops, since 1978 no less!) and it has been funded consistantly by the Scottish Arts Council, equivalent of the CNZ. Although Scotland is smaller than NZ (with roughly the same population) it has lots of geographically isolated communities on numerous islands that it engages, by travelling to them. http://www.travellinggallery.com Might be worth thinking about this model? Why it works? Why it might/might not work for Ada? cheers, rachel On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Julian Oliver <[email protected]>wrote: > ..on Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 11:01:37AM +0200, adam hyde wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 12:58 +0200, Damian Stewart wrote: > > > honor wrote: > > > > In a geographically-elongated context (such as New Zealand), such a > vehicle > > > > might better be conceived of as virtual, rather than physical, > distributed > > > > rather than centralised. > > > > > > what about conceiving of this vehicle as a vehicle, so to speak? > > > ADA-Blerta? that was another one of my ideas before i jumped ship - > fill a > > > bus/van with some basic tech and go and confuse smalltownfolk with new > media. > > > > a really good model and precedent for this is the Expert Base van > > Florian Schneider had, and of course Ariel Railway (the roaming > > recording studio from Coromandel). > > There was also a mobile lab/schoolroom/digital-library/internet-cafe in the > form > of a bus at one point travelling around Eastern Europe. Maybe you can > remember > the name? People could pack in and skill up for a day or two. All the > machines > and tables could be folded away in all sorts of impossible ways; IKEA meets > house-bus. > > This bus-lab was a little sterile and over-hyped as a whole. That said it > it did > make a lot of sense when I was actually inside the thing. > > It'd be great if such vehicle could be taken further, doubling as a micro > exhibition space as Damian suggests. > > Roll in a few terabytes of knowledge archives, a local webserver, uplink > for > offline locals, free software repositories, soldering irons, arduinos, > microphones, speakers, a dozen thin client workstations, 20 foldable chairs > and > a back-projection screen on one side the bus for mini-cinema. > > > I cant find links for them..ugh...the internet...so young...so young... > > Same situation here.. Can't find a reference.. > > Cheers, > > -- > Julian Oliver > home: New Zealand > based: Berlin, Germany > currently: Berlin, Germany > about: http://julianoliver.com > _______________________________________________ > Ada_list mailing list > [email protected] > http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/ > -- Rachel Gillies [email protected] | http://discussphotography.wordpress.com +64 (0)27 389 7995 skype: rachel.gillies
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