After last year's bold experimentation with a multi-venue ADA AGM we
are going old-school and having the 2010 meeting at this year's
symposium in Whanganui.
Once again we are calling for nominations, this time for two places on
the board. All ADA members (list subscribers for more than 6 months,
who have posted to the list or participated in a symposium), are
eligible to vote and to be board members. You can nominate yourself or
someone else, and each nomination needs a seconder.
The board oversees a range of projects intended to support and promote
'digital' art from Aotearoa. This includes our regular symposia,
projects like the Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader, Electrosmog and the
equipment loan scheme in partnership with the Physics Room .
As a board member you need to be available for semi-regular skype
meetings, which increase in number leading up to specific project
deadlines. You also need to be willing to join in with writing funding
applications, acquittals and other bits and pieces in a fairly
collaborative manner, to work on organising the symposia, and to come
up with ideas for new projects that you are willing and able to
actually make happen. The position involves a fair amount of heavy
lifting – the current board has spent a lot of time and energy being
the ADA board, and we anticipate that this will continue to be the
case as ADA continues to evolve. It's not all printer ink and hard
graft though, you also get to help shape an organisation that does
cool stuff with lovely and interesting people.
To propose a nomination you need to write about 50 words explaining
why you (or someone else) would be a great board member. If you
nominate somebody else they need to know about it, and be happy with
the idea! Nominations should be sent to our impartial returning
officer Zoe Drayton (who is not a board member) by Sunday December 5
at 5pm: [email protected]
Please include the email address you are subscribed to the list under.
Each nomination needs a seconder, so you need to arrange for someone
else to email Zoe to support the nomination.
The seconded nomination blurbs will be compiled and sent to the list
before the AGM.
Voting will take place at the meeting and by email before the
meeting. Email votes must be sent to Zoe by 5pm on Friday December
10. Once again, when voting, please include your full name and the
email you subscribe to the list under. You can vote for up to two
candidates. If there are only two nominees for the available
positions, they will be elected automatically.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Nominations Open: right now
Nominations Close: Sunday 5 December, 5pm
AGM: Saturday December 11, 4–5pm
Email Voting Opens: when the nominees are announced on the
list
Email Voting Closes: Friday December 10, 5pm
Appointments Announced: Monday 13 December
First Board Meeting: Thursday 20 January
The Aotearoa Digital Arts Trust
Zita Joyce, Stella Brennan, Su Ballard, Douglas Bagnall, Honor Harger,
Julian Priest_______________________________________________
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[email protected]
http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/
