I wish my students always told me they were having the best time of their life. It would make me feel better!
Best Simon Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk si...@littlepig.org.uk Skype: simonbiggsuk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ Research Professor edinburgh college of art http://www.eca.ac.uk/ Creative Interdisciplinary Research in CoLlaborative Environments http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice http://www.elmcip.net/ Centre for Film, Performance and Media Arts http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/film-performance-media-arts > From: dave miller <dave.miller...@gmail.com> > Reply-To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity > <netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org> > Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 16:36:16 +0100 > To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity > <netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org> > Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] From today... > > Marc - that's brilliant - being a student is the best thing in life, I love > it! > > Are we still living in a Neoliberalist world? Has the Neoliberalist > experiment ended in utter failure (bank crisis etc)? > > just a thought > > dave > > On 11 October 2010 16:23, marc garrett <marc.garr...@furtherfield.org> wrote: >> Hi Alan, >> >> Entering into education the wrong way round. >> >> I have always researched, studied, made art, written & hacked outside of >> institutional contexts, until now... >> >> I have been offered an MPhil, with a choice to do a PhD after the 2nd >> year. The programme of study falls under - Film/Television/Media Studies >> Research. Although many individuals are studying digital, media art >> within this framework of study. >> >> An edited intro... >> >> How artists engage in the process of taking control of the medium of >> technology, and their own creative voice; is complicated and works at >> many different degrees of self-agency and situation-based needs. The >> Situationists in their own time had to bring about a completely new way >> of being in the world. They changed habits and approaches to their own >> art, introducing new territories of art practice, adapting and moving >> their attention into the realms of film, book distribution and projects >> (happening) in everyday culture. In light of Debord's statement "There >> can be no freely spent time until we possess the modern tools for the >> construction of everyday life. The use of such tools will mark the leap >> from a utopian revolutionary art to an experimental revolutionary art. >> >> My starting question is - How can art maintain its authenticity in a >> Neoliberalist world? >> >> It's a little bit more complex, but the above give's you some idea :-) >> >> wishing you well. >> >> marc >> >> >> >> >> >Birkbeck? I visited David Bohm there! Wonderful! What are you studying? >> >> love Alan >> >> On Mon, 11 Oct 2010, marc garrett wrote: >> >> > > Hi Netbehaviourists, >> > > >> > > From today... >> > > >> > > I am a student at Birkbeck University - a whole new experience for me. >> > > >> > > It's good to become someone else again ;-) >> > > >> > > marc >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > NetBehaviour mailing list >> > > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org >> > > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> > > >> > > >> >> >> == >> email archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ >> webpage http://www.alansondheim.org >> music archive: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ >> == >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> > > > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Art Portfolio: http://davemiller.org > Art Blog: http://davemiller.org/art_blog > Shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/visualstories > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC009201 _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
