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Hi, Sorry for the late response to this thread. Been busy... Visiting the page (www.newmedia.sunderland.ac.uk/crumb/maup/maup.html) Sarah has put up on the crumb site, I was disappointed to see digital images that scarcely give any idea of what the exhibitions looked like. I think that if we are to discuss questions such as the minimal analytical unit problem, we might first want to agree on minimum standards of visual documentation of an exhibition. I think that QuickTime VR technology (both to record exhibition space and exhibited objects) would be a feasible and more informative way of showing things. It is a very simple technique, easy to learn and only requires the software, a low-res digital camera and a tripod. Chau, Ittai Bar-Joseph Jerusalem Sarah Cook wrote: > 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)