Re: <nettime> ISEA 2011 fees

[Renee Turner <geuzen@xs4all.nl>]

Hi all,

I'm in complete agreement with many of the issues that have been  
raised in this thread. I also wrote the ISEA organizers saying much  
the same.  And yes, let's organize things otherwise...it's certainly  
possible.  In other words, "count me in".

best,

Renee

www.geuzen.org
www.fudgethefacts.com

On May 13, 2011, at 7:08 PM, Brian Holmes wrote:

> 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.
<...>


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