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Hi Zita and all ADA-ists!

Thanks for this opportunity to participate/collaborate to Electrosmog. For backyard dancers, the recording of AUT stream had no sound http://suzonfuks.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/03... ...

Thanks for those reflections Suzon!

• for the links - I believe that the dance piece was supposed to be
  silent (Becca?), though I didn't realise that beforehand to make it
  clear on the guff about it...

That's a great point - they spent a lot of time wanting to marvel over
the MIT funded facilities at Distancelab while being really unable to
cope with the glitches and 'imperfections' that come with genuinely
experimenting with network possibilities and location over a great
distance and time difference! ...

Hi Zita!

backyard dancers had a soundtrack (text2speech piece) made by Becca based on the videos that have been sent in as contributions. It was the link to all performers movement and offered a score to follow. ...

Hi all, Its great to read these reflections. For me Electrosmog was always
going to be about the disconnections and disjunctions, as much as it
was about connectivity. In Dunedin we had a 'concrete' presence for the Festival with the
arrival of the Teletrust dataveil (after some really convoluted
customs wrangling that I won't go into... but that epitomized a number
of things about art, access, assumptions, centers and peripheries).
The link up with Mart in Amsterdam to organize the technical test of
the veil was a fabulous hour or two of proper networked distributed
festival experience. Despite this, it was hard to describe the veil
and the festival to the Dunedin audiences without being met with "is
that part of the fringe festival?" A festival with a centre which is off site (but not necessarily off- centered) was always going to be a hard sell. ...

Hi all,

just wanted to add to this debrief thread a little by contrasting 4 impressions of the event. ...

thanks zita, su, suzon & others for your reflections. i'm now in karamea, off the mobile grid but wireless broadband has penetrated even to here : ) ...

On 22 Mar 2010, at 05:04, su b wrote:

to pick up on this point, from the other side of the globe: to my untrained, opinianated (and possibly likely to invoke the Wrath of Bagnall ;-) ) eyes, the biggest artistic gain that emerges from the 'Festival' format, at least within the contemporary European context in which Amsterdam and De Balie are reasonably squarely situated, is this: a lot of people who know each other but normally travel a lot end up in the same city at the same time and so they eat dinner together and drink beers and swap ideas and inspiration, all after the 'real' festival content has finished. this is in a way the biggest problem with the format as it instantiates itself here, and i think reflects why some of the audienc in Amsterdam may have paid less heed to the screens on the wall: there are so many of the bloody things, festivals i mean, that many people who have been in the business for more than a couple of years no longer have much respect for the content of the festival itself.

conversely: an NZ-streamed talk at 10am on Saturday in our apartment in Vienna was interrupted by the morning necessities of coffee, breakfast, and getting to the vege market before it closed.

In the links Suzon posted the version with sound reveals the 'behind
the scenes' audio as we set up and the audio or sound score that each
dancer worked with simultaneously. This was pre-recorded and cued by
an on-line count down to start the dance. ...

Dear all Congratulations electrosmog team on an exciting weekend. I followed some of the work with great interest and particularly thought that the backyard dances seemed cohesive and coherent, being visually and conceptually well framed. My attempts to log in to the breakfast on Sunday morning were foiled by a lack of knowledge of the software - it would have been good to have an obvious point of call to ask for assistance. As someone with less experience in these digital platforms than most on this network what I am still seeking is to be reassured that we are being 'held' as an audience - or that the slippage is an acceptable part of the performance. Is this possible? ...

Ok, so attachments don't work, that makes sense Can i instead recommend you go to www.nowfuture.org.nz/dialogues ...

Some non-expert advice? If it was me I would...

Use Skype. They've now introduced corporate accounts (read: more focus on reliability) and I've heard of many users that do podcasts with other users around the world. ...

Hello, I know the 24th was well, yesterday?, but I haven't seen this come
through. Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to celebrate the
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