Oh, stink Andrew, I would have loved to hear him talk again. Good point on the Closer Event Relations. ADA has done a bit of this, like inviting Melinda, who used to be director of ANAT, over for the Dunedin conference, and personal contacts with David Cranswick from DLux in Sydney. i was also involved in a Multimedia Art Asia Pacific project last year, but something a bit more programmatic might be useful. Sometimes it seems a little that Australian organisations can view NZ as a poor cousin to the real, exciting, 'international' stuff happening elsewhere (as I think Damian alludes), but I think this is changing (or maybe it's my misperception in the first place). And, if you think of things like the Asia Pacific Triennial in Brisbane, Australia has a great history of interest and involvement in the larger region, more so than NZ.
The ADA list was actually started up after I tried to get Lev Manovich over from Aussie when he visited, and found it difficult to make contact with interested parties. I guess what might be useful is if we can know when visitors are coming well in advance. and the other thing, which i'm sure you're aware of, is finding the time to find the money to make a visit possible. Some regional thinking would be smart tho. One of the really nice things about Cloudland at ISEA in Singapore last year was that sense of building relationships with people and organisations in the (larger) neighborhood, rather than solely that attenuated connection with the Euro-American digital art circuit. With new(ish) residencies in China, Korea and India, CNZ's (hive)mind seems to be turning in this direction too. best, Stella On 15/10/2009, at 10:15 AM, Andrew Clifford wrote: > ----- Message from [email protected] --------- > >> DOUGLAS KAHN NATIONAL LECTURE TOUR >> >> "...The Arts of Sound in Australia enjoy a vibrant, active and rather >> underground scene. Many Australian sound arts practitioners are held >> in high international regard, yet they are relatively unknown in >> Australia's contemporary arts sector..." > > Sounds familiar. A pity Douglas won't be popping across the ditch to > do a > lecture in NZ while he's at it. I tried to set something up but > couldn't get > any reply. > > Which raises an interesting point in terms of the CNZ strategy > discussion we've > been having. Are there more established situations in Australia that > would be > useful to NZ ADA practitioners? And maybe contexts in NZ that would > be useful > to Australian people? I suspect there are a lot of resources right > in our back > yard, just a short flight away if Oz-NZ ties were strengthened. > > AC > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ada_list mailing list > [email protected] > http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/ _______________________________________________ Ada_list mailing list [email protected] http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/
