Re: [spectre] Looking back to a situation in '94

2015-04-16 Diskussionsfäden helen varley jamieson
one way around it is what we did with the CyPosium (http://www.cyposium.net/); this event had a zero budget. we decided not to waste our time & energies trying to find funding for a totally online globally distributed symposium about cyberformance, & instead just got on with it. all of the organise

Re: [spectre] Looking back to a situation in '94

2015-04-16 Diskussionsfäden John Hopkins
Hei Mathias! It was not so long ago when artist and non-institutional participants were considered an asset for festivals and conferences. Halcyon days indeed. I remember that the group of invited artists to 1994 ISEA in Helsinki threatened the organizers with a boycott, in case we were forc

[spectre] Looking back to a situation in '94

2015-04-13 Diskussionsfäden Mathias Fuchs
John has a point there... "We are in a situation that demands other models and other behaviors towards the institutions that impose this form of poverty through indentured servitude..." (hopkins) It was not so long ago when artist and non-institutional participants were considered an asset fo