Hi Zita and all ADA-ists! Thanks for this opportunity to participate/collaborate to Electrosmog. For backyard dancers, the recording of AUT stream had no sound http://suzonfuks.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/backyard-public_stream.mov
while the following recording directly from ivisit windows has sound: http://suzonfuks.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/backyard-ivisit.mov For Julian waka, (thank you Julian) I was quite chocked that people in Amsterdam asked to repeat it and also cut short the effort of Trudy to show photos for her presentation. (unconsistancy with Amsterdam encouragements to show another setup than the white walls during the presentation of DistanceLab!) Apart from the culural misunderstanding, (which is important to consider, organisers' check list while preparing the event should have a point about their protocol(s) and if there are any specific one(s) for participants), the link with amsterdam people made me think about "how people perceive and understand remotness and the scale of remotness". It seems to me that there is a very personal experiential element according where you are from, where you have been physically. E.g.: countryside does not mean the same in Europe and NZ! Please let us know where the documentation about the Access Grid mini-symposium will be accessible. Thanks again. Cheers Suzon Australia Council for the Arts Fellow http://suzonfuks.net http://www.igneous.org.au mob:+61-404 292 119 Tel:+61-7-3255 8355 3/27 Waverley St - Annerley QLD 4103 - Australia skype: suzonfuks On 22/03/10 10:39 AM, "Zita Joyce" <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear ADA > > So the Electrosmog festival is over.... I'm really happy with all of > the projects and events we organised here, and then I have > reservations about the broader festival, and especially our interface > with it. I should probably work through those more coherently before > trying to say them out loud in public, but these are my initial > thoughts anyway... > > I think we did great projects, but in the future it would be more > productive for us to do things like this (networked festivally things) > on our own terms, with more ownership of the discussion, themes, > structure, aesthetic and timezones(!). > > This didn't end up being quite the distributed global festival I first > thought, and there was an uncomfortable centre-periphery relationship > inherent in the whole thing. Mostly this is because it was initiated > and coordinated by Eric Kluitenberg at De Balie in Amsterdam, and he > has a lot of experience at organising big ambitious festivals. I was > on the production / editorial email list, but few people on there > really contributed to the overall discussion + planning, and my focus > was on trying to work out the timezone issues. It seemed like everyone > was really doing their own things, and it managed to be both too > centralised to take ownership of, and too distributed to really have a > coherent focus. > > There were a few particularly tricky problems, mostly technical issues > (ie their stream dropping out after the first day so we couldn't even > watch it except in occasional bursts of quicktime), and the fact that > the organisers in Amsterdam were juggling a huge number of > contributors across different platforms and only just keeping on top > of it (a pretty amazing feat it must be said). Most problematic for me > were the cultural differences that became apparent - especially in the > way Julian's contribution from the waka was handled in the Deep Local > session, when Eric and Gerbrand got flustered and talked over the > Karakia to try to get them to stop and start it again (and then they > couldn't manage to show Trudy's photos and then I was so grumpy about > all that I lost track of my notes and didn't say any of the things I > meant to say). > > Culturally too perhaps, the themes themselves were hard to get a > handle on from here, and most simply didn't feel relevant, to me at > least... > > > > Still, some great things happened here, and we now need to make sure > we have documentation of it all on the ADA website, especially: > - Becca Woods' Backyard Dances > (There is a recording of the video stream here: > http://suzonfuks.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/backyard-public_stream.mov) > - Sean Kerr's M4RI Ping Pong Pop, with Clinton Watkins, Adam Willetts > and Nathan Thompson (this is a still of the visual output, but I > should be able to get more documentation from De Balie - > http://www.seankerr.auckland.ac.nz/PINGPONGPOP/) > - The Teletrust performances coordinated by Su in Dunedin (which > should be documented here - http://teletrustlab.net/) > - The Access Grid mini-symposium 'What is the Perfect Network' (which > Su and I will compile documentation of this week if possible) > - Julian's Waka.Wireless (http://greenbench.org/project/waka-wireless) > - Trudy's great presentation to the Deep Local session > > > Some of the projects we launched are ongoing / permanent: > - The Korawiki: > http://korawiki.aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/wiki/doku.php/kora:home > - Luke Munn and Sam Hamilton's lovely (with a really cool interface) > Klanggang / Soundwalk: > http://www.lukemunn.com/2010/02/klanggang-soundwalk.html > - Helen Varley Jamieson and Vicki Smith's 'X Marks the Spot', which > will develop between now and their 10/10/10 festival: > http://upstage.org.nz/blog > > > > > This was a huge project, and took a lot of planning and figuring out > over a really long period (it's over a year now since I first met with > Eric in Amsterdam about it). It was a network effort, coordinated by > the ADA trust electrosmog 'subcommittee' (myself, Su Ballard, and > Julian Priest) with James Charlton, and a lot of input from a lot of > other people. > > Thanks, then, to everyone who spoke, performed, organised, negotiated, > commented, and generally made things happen technically, socially, and > creatively: > > Su Ballard > Julian Priest > James Charlton > The Waka.Wireless crew: Mike Poa, Jonah Marinovich, Don Hunter, Te > Wainuiarua Poa, Sue James > The Dunedin TeleTrust team > Trudy Lane > Becca Wood > + the Backyard Dancers (who I'm afraid I don't know the names of) > Sean Kerr > + the M4RI Ping Pong Pop performers: Sean Kerr, Adam Willetts, Nathan > Thompson, Clinton Watkins) > Helen Varley Jamieson > Vicki Smith > Luke Munn > Sam Hamilton > The participants in the Access Grid 'What is the Perfect Network' > session > James' students who made projects responding to the themes of > Electrosmog > Everyone who has contributed to the Korawiki so far > Everyone who listened / watched / wrote comments + responses to the > list and in whatever channels were available over the weekend > Stella Brennan > Douglas Bagnall > Honor Harger > > (I'm sure I'm forgetting people! my apologies if so...) > > > > best, > Zita > > > > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------- > > > > > 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. 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