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Dear crumb-ers, The end of May has come and gone and much remains to be discussed. Stay tuned for news from Beryl about June's theme of the month and invited respondents. In the meantime, I'd like to reiterate my request for curators on the list to send us installation photos of new media exhibitions, alongside notes and comments about how the projects worked or didn't given the constraints or benefits of the gallery space. At the Baltic Seminar Vuk Cosic and I decided it was time to create a database and look - in the spirit of map-making - at what constitutes the minimal analytical unit problem (MAUP) - in other words, what is the minimum we need to know in order to make sure we don't keep making the same mistakes (or looking in the same place for the answers) as the curators who have come before? How do we widen our field of vision to take in greater and more varied examples for the consideration of the exhibition of new media art work? More on the idea of MAUP next week... but in the meantime, the first rudimentary page is at www.newmedia.sunderland.ac.uk/crumb/maup/maup.html looking forward to your thoughts on how best to proceed... thanks, Sarah (p.s. tip of the hat to Oliver Grau and his Database of Virtual Art, details of which can be found at: http://www.arthistory.hu-berlin.de/arthistd/mitarbli/og/og.html)