Oh, I should say that I don't think ADA is the only organisation that could or should be able / willing to leap in and organise speaking opportunities for people we all want to see here. It's just the organisation I know best!
What I really mean is wouldn't it be nice if there was a person / organisation that could step in with some money, flexibility re how to spend it, and administrative capacity to organise visits by interesting speakers. I also think it's really important that people outside Auckland get to see + hear people as well, so there would have to be some kind of national focus to be extra lovely. + Melanie that's a great offer! On 15/10/2009, at 11:36 AM, Zita Joyce wrote: > Indeed, he is an excellent facebooker, and I'm sure it would be easy > enough to liase with him directly about coming to nz, but It's really > unlikely that it could be arranged either within his schedule or > financially + organisationally by anyone here at this point in the > (academic) year - though I would _love_ to be proved wrong on that? > > + this is a broader question of how to coordinate getting people here > in general, financially + organisationally, and a bit of a bugbear of > mine - something i go on about without really acting on. > > In my list of things I'd like to spend money on, having a fund + > coordination to be able to bring people over the ditch and round the > country is a pretty high priority. I envisage something like altmusic > for digital / media art, where ADA could connect with friendly > institutions around the country to set up a tour for someone. We > cobbled one together for Alessandro Ludivico last year mostly thanks > to the generosity of Victoria University + Auckland University for > flights + the hard work of Douglas Easterly + Alex Monteith to arrange > those. That was a bit of an institutional fluke though and not easily > replicated. > > I think there are a couple of things we need here: > > - A connection with Australian organisations to maybe mention with > enough warning if someone we might be interested in is coming to Aust > - and a willingness to let us borrow them over here without > contributing to the international flights! (we did have amazing > cooperation from the writers fest in Newcastle that were hosting > Alessandro on that last year). We do have a good relationship with > ANAT, and it would be relatively easy to have this conversation with > them at least. > > - but that would be useless unless we can actually organise money for > flights etc and institutional support. It's awkward and embarrassing > having to go 'oh hang on while we work through all these different > possible channels to rustle up a really tiny amount of money' to an > organisation that has just spent thousands on that person in the first > place. That rigmarole does nothing to dispel any ideas of us being a > pretty useless poor cousin... > > I would love to have an ADA fund for touring speakers that we could > activate for exactly these kinds of possibilities, but to apply for > money for that purpose we would have to know all of the details of > speakers + their costs up to a year in advance, basically, and that's > really not that practical or possible. > > hmm, I guess I should get on to that cnz strategic plan submission... > > > > > > On 15/10/2009, at 11:11 AM, Andrew Clifford wrote: > >> Good idea, i still haven't fully realised how easy it is to find >> people on >> Facebook. But I don't know if anyone would have time or resources to >> organise >> anything at this stage of the year. I certainly don't. >> >>> >>> A really good way to get hold of Doug is via Facebook. Shall I >>> drop >>> him a line. >>> >>> Honor >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Ada_list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/ > > > This email may be confidential and subject to legal privilege, it may > not reflect the views of the University of Canterbury, and it is not > guaranteed to be virus free. If you are not an intended recipient, > please notify the sender immediately and erase all copies of the > message > and any attachments. > > Please refer to http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/emaildisclaimer for more > information. > _______________________________________________ > Ada_list mailing list > [email protected] > http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/ This email may be confidential and subject to legal privilege, it may not reflect the views of the University of Canterbury, and it is not guaranteed to be virus free. If you are not an intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and erase all copies of the message and any attachments. Please refer to http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/emaildisclaimer for more information. _______________________________________________ Ada_list mailing list [email protected] http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/
