I just picked up on what appears to be today's breaking news, ACE has
decided not to award additional funding to The Public:
http://is.gd/hy3X
A bit of early commentary from the Guardian: http://is.gd/hy5m
And if the news was focusing on the "failure" of interactive art
before, it will be interesting to see if it will get any worse on the
heels of this quote from Sir Christopher Frayling, the Chair of ACE:
"But the fact is that, although the building is open, the interactive
art gallery at the centre of the vision for The Public is not."
Best regards
MK
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 1:38 AM, Sarah Cook
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> Hello CRUMB listers
> I write from NZ where the SCANZ residency is underway (www.intercreate.org)
> - we'll be developing the theme of the month for February with the
> participants here, so stay tuned!
> But in the meantime I wonder how many of you heard the BBC midnight news
> piece about The Public in West Bromwich and have any other takes on the
> situation there? I know it's a deeply complicated thing but I lament, from
> afar, that the news media is putting it down in part to the failure of the
> digital art inside the building, and that because the opening was so delayed
> the works themselves are out of date.
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio4_aod.shtml?radio4/midnightnews
> best for now,
> sarah
>
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