Re: <nettime> ISEA 2011 fees

[Brian Holmes <bhcontinentaldrift@gmail.com>]

On 05/12/2011 11:52 PM, Nicholas Knouf wrote:

> These fees make me seriously reconsider my participation in ISEA 2011.
> I wonder if our money is not better spent organizing a
> counter-conference that does not discriminate based on ability to pay.
> Perhaps we would then be able to have a real "international symposium on
> electronic art".

Electronic art has always been the bastard child of corporate 
sponsorship -- sometimes disguised through the dodgy mediation of 
academic prestige. Yet electronic art is one of the most important set 
of lenses/vehicles that we have for the perception of global systems.

Nick's suggestion is the most interesting one I've heard since the days of
the Next 5 Minutes. Why don't we self-organize a collective inquiry into
the development of planetary information/visualization/communication
systems? Why don't we all take the time, spend/generate/divert the cash and
above all, do the serious work required to find out how the world is being
run next summer in 2012? Why continue to cling to the corporate/academic
ship while its sinking and taking everyone else with it? Why not put some
love and some teeth back into the word autonomy?

best, Brian


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