also briefly escaping some very pressing digital arts (sonic arts actually) deadlines:
admittedly my first reaction at the mention of a bus/van was a big cringe. also the hacklab where people can geek out together. my gut response to both of these things is - we've all got our own laptops/computers and software and internet connections (don't we?); as far as our digital means of expression are concerned, the sky's the limit really. and whatever dissemination needs we might have are usually linked to the dissemination localities (be that web portal or art gallery/data projector/PA). so the focus really is at heart a social one, and if people want to be social, they will be social - regardless of the antisocial and of CNZ's party budget. HOWEVER in the last digest someone mentioned the word "school" and that changed my perspective a bit - I think it may be a roving school library bus we're talking about here! taking digital arts to teenagers, and showing them there's more to computer networking than gaming, facebook and youtube. which I'm not sure any of us are that keen on doing (then again, there's been a lot of enthusiasm about the road trip aspect - any way to get out of these deadlines!), but that certainly would be an approach to get good funding. even if it is officially an educational focus, it'd be easy to tack on the mobile hacklab for the eager twentysomethings. (although it'd probably help to promote them entirely separately, I mean, who wants to be associated with school kids! sheesh!) ok better run, jo _______________________________________________ Ada_list mailing list [email protected] http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/
