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Hello again, please allow me to introduce myself...

My name is Stella Brennan. I started this list with Sean Cubitt. ...

Hi, I've been off in Wellington ignoring my email, and came back to a fearsomely full inbox. Delighted to see everybody using the list (I was afraid it would just be me and Sean). Cool. Welcome posters and lurkers alike. Just a reminder, though, that if you can think of anyone who you reckon would be interested please let them know, badger them, sign them up... the homepage is http://ada.waikato.ac.nz . The more the merrier, etc etc. ...

first an apology bcos for the last 10 days i've been immersed in a festival & have been unable to digest the list postings - now i'm starting from the most recent & going backwards & my brain isn't functioning 100% after being up til 4am at the closing party, but i want to respond briefly to adam's comment below about how to get nz artists involved in festivals .... ...

you know how you get all those books called NZ verse, NZ short storoies, and NZ film?

Why isn't there the same concern about NZ webservers? Where's government policy on NZ games developers? SWhould universities protect authentically kiwi e-mail? ...

hi,

just thought i would insert an intro between posts...

i am interested in this list because i think its amazing to see so much enthusiasm about getting some local momentum going in the new media / digital /IP arts (whatever you want to call it)...although i have to confess to being one of those awkward correspondants that may sound a little out of touch from time to time as I havent lived in nz for almost 6 years...so please excuse the odd ill-informed blunder i will unwittingly make ...

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. ...

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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) ...

Emma Bugden wrote on 15/4/03 5:01 PM:

Yep! And I should add to the introductions... Kia ora koutou, it's great to have everyone here talking, so props to Stella and Sean for that. As some of you will know, I've called for interest from people on fibreculture http://www.fibreculture.org for a conversation about NZ networks but I am aware the :fc: model doesn't really make much sense here. In particular the crossovers between new media art / technology policy / activism / education are much less visible - mostly due to the lack of relevant media IMHO. Anyway that's a big discussion for another time. The main thing is that people involved in digital arts could use a place to talk and now we have one. ...

Hi everyone,

I have to apologise first off because I've only just managed to get on the list..something to do with working for the City Council, they like to be subjective with what email lists I am allowed to join. So I am kind of behind the eight ball so to speak, and have only been checking the discussion out via the archives. ...

indeed. they?re sister cities in more ways than one. the eerie towen planning echos (that grid system, the centrality of the rivers - torrens and avon, the edward gibbon wakefield connection ) perplexingly, both proudly proclaim their status as ?the garden city? and ?the cathedral city?. & note the curiously high incidences of bizarre violent crime in both places . all christchurch needs now is a pioneering cyberfeminist movement ...

Yeah, with due respect to Colin (if he's on list), I think Charles Brasch's associates might have had quite a bit to say about this claim :). My average knowledge of art history would also indicate that per capita NZ has probably had more modern art than a lot of other countries... anyway if William Dart is around at the talk I'm sure he will quickly set Colin straight :) ...

After Sarah and Mark, Kia Ora, I'm Sean

out of Lincolnshire on the blasted east Coast of England of Irish parents, travelled around, mostly Europe and North America. Teach at U of waikato, write about media, compose web poems, homepage in the signature. I'm here because I wanted a new challenge, I was fed up with the deadweight of historical no-can-do-ism in the northern hemisphere, and I like living 24 hours into the future. ...

Colin Beardon is visiting for the next several months at the Uni of Waikato. The events occur there. Please mail him direct for further details ...

hee ho,

Just read Seans posting and wondered if BigTV was going to be used to broadcast the ADA event live...might be a good way to open the forum to the local public too...

hi everyone,

thanks sean for posting the announcement about the digital creativity conference to the lost. if anyone goes, i'd be desperately interested to hear the below paper:

Hi all,

Following Susan Ballard's introduction, this is me:

A refugee from 10 years lecturing at Salford University, Manchester UK, newly arrived in New Zealand (the 7th country I have now lived in) and landing in Invercargill(!). Qualified in music and music technology but teach/have taught and research (theoretical and practical) in Internet/web, computer games, audio engineering, computer programming etc. etc. etc. An umbilical cord to my computer and rabid Quake 3 Arena player (and the recent Urban Terror Q3A mod - 'Counterstrike sucks bigtime' as any true gamer will say ;)), a few years back I wrote the UK's first undergraduate degree dedicated to computer games production (http://www.music.salford.ac.uk/music2/web/general/courses/cvg.htm) and, several years ago, set up the popular AARDVARK game servers (http://www.music.salford.ac.uk/quake) - how I miss my 0 ping! A fervant believer that the best research is practical research. Quake players can pick up some of my maps or just look at the pretty pictures here: http://www.music.salford.ac.uk/music2/web/gener... index.html

Inquire about our Zero Fee Scheme at http://www.sit.ac.nz (Applicable to New Zealand Citizens and Permanent Residents.) The Zero Fee Scheme is also now available for Courses at our Christchurch Campus. Applications for 2003 Full-Time Programmes are being accepted now!

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Hello Ada it is great so much is happening in hamilton, maybe I'm jealous, but I'd love to hear more details. (sorry, I should be using 'we', ) I've been forwarding some ada stuff to others in the "new media/ digital" (mmm let's really discuss these terms sometime...) crowd in Dunedin, and we'd really like to know the specifics of what people on this list are up to, and where everyone located. Getting to Spark is a real challenge for us at the School of Art, as it is right in the middle of teaching time, and travel to another island is difficult to secure...So we'd love to see the discussion here grow and make us feel not quite so alone. Maybe the quick bio thing could help.... ...

Hi Brent Grayburn has asked me to pass this info around to artists working in video/new media, so spread the word (there will be artist fees paid): ...