thanks zita, su, suzon & others for your reflections. i'm now in
karamea, off the mobile grid but wireless broadband has penetrated even
to here : )
i wasn't able to participate much due to my own disrupted life situation
& travels - just haven't been able to keep on top of the emails & it was
all i could do to be part of the 2 things that i was able to be part of;
both of which were worthwhile in different ways. hoepfully i'll
eventually have time to look at the documentation ... but for now just a
couple of comments/responses, & apologies for not having the brain-space
to contribute further at the moment.
On 22/03/10 5:04 PM, su b wrote:
Perhaps the truth is that a festival needs a centre, no matter how
distributed.
yes, of course; but it is possible to create that centre & make it work
across multiple time zones & locations - we've been doing this for the
last 3 years with the UpStage festival. the "centre" is both the online
space & the consistent presence of key people who make a real effort to
engage with everyone, wherever they might be. the feedback we've had
suggests that for the audience & performers there is definitely a
feeling of community, of being together & sharing an experience, across
the distance. we have "real life access nodes" in various physical
locations, but we don't prioritise any location over the online space.
The time frame issues were seriously unresolved and unthought.
this is disappointing to hear, after all it is a key feature of the
distributed/networked environment (i spend hours working out the UpStage
festival schedule).
Also the korawiki is only just in its infancy now. This is potentially
an important tool for the telling of our own histories as they relate
to remote/ distributed/ networked art. I really want to develop this
database. But, how... and in what way... will only come out of the
material as it arrives, as it becomes documented by us as a community.
This is perhaps a different kind of immobility, as we trace back
through histories of practice that often fall off the radar (the old
centre periphery thing again.)
it's on my "to do" list for next week : )
h : )
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