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hey ho,

On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Caroline Mccaw wrote:

but surely the 'culture of reception' needs some strong signals across the www from nz? i think perhaps one of the problems is that there are very few points from nz that are 'transmitting' (to follow Caros analogy :-) ) into the international headspace...it doesnt have to matter, but if there really is a desire by those on the ADA list and others for nz to insert itself into the 'international new media discourse' (yek- i hate myself for writing that already ) more often than it presently does, then there needs to be some discussion about profiling at the ADA meeting - especially (i think) how to get nz artists involved in festivals either remotely or in person (such as the Next 5 Minute festival I mentioned in an earlier email) ...

perhaps thanks to the internet and its technological kin, regionalism has taken a bit of a back seat in new media art. partly because showing art internationally as an artist in a small or isolated country can mean packaging a preview tape off overseas, or responding by e-mail and sending a URL. i'm not sure whether geography is such a shaping factor, or at least is a determining factor in who gets noticed. having said that it would still be cool to be living in one of the centres. ...