[spectre] juxtaposing

[John Hopkins]

HI J. dear!

hehe, the Digital Chaos CyberConference, ancient history! -- 
http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/archives/7279 -- more photos will someday appear 
from my archives!

> 3: The Cool Media Hot Talk Show is another very interesting model. This was/is
> an initiative of Tania Goryucheva, and was organized and (literally) programmed
> by Eric Kluitenberg and Michiel van der Haagen of De Balie in Amsterdam. It was
> an event that could be entirely planned through an online audience. Special
> software was created through which anybody could compile an event, choose the
> speakers, have it voted for, create questions, etc. The event itself happened on
> and offline. The online audience could vote for specific audience questions that
> came up during the event itself.

Along with the discussion of the ISEA over on nettime, and having been at the 
ADA symposium in NZ last December where Eric skyped in talking about online 
symposia et al, it strikes me that one of the BIGGEST problems that I have 
witnessed with network-based symposia and alternative events is the incredible 
LACK of solid an focused participants!  Having facilitated and participated in 
numerous online and f2f events over the years, even the best funded (TM, V2, etc 
etc) might have a maximum of, say, 30 online participants with maybe 5 who were 
actually engaged in the process...

IMHO, there needs to be a discussion about how to be a good remote 
participant...  How to build the focus, concentration, attention to project 
through sensually attenuated network protocols and reach that distant Other in 
order for something to actually happen....

etc...

jh




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John Hopkins, Researcher
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