Dear list,
Kathy Rae Huffman's post about working in Hull made me think about
contrasts between last month's contexts and this month may not be so
much about Big and Small but about being in a fashionable and wealthy
'Capital' city and working outside of that (Sunderland is rather
similar to Hull). Big institutions such as SFMOMA, NYMOMA, or the
Whitney must be under big pressure to address some kind of generic
audience, and to be relentlessly fashionable under the beady eye of
the press. There is indeed much more freedom outside of that (and
certainly much less press attention!) I particularly value the
freedom to work with specialist audiences, however 'small', and the
recognition that technology means something very different in
Sunderland than it does in San Francisco.
What Brendan Jackson points out
<http://www.newmedia.sunderland.ac.uk/crumb/phase2/nmc_intvw_bookjack.html>
is that lack of documentation of 'community-based' projects in the
1970's UK, led to much 're-inventing the wheel'. Is this still the
case with 'community-based' projects now, or has the Internet changed
all that?
Beryl
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