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Dear Sarah, While I am not a native speaker and given the fact that my English is known to have some occassionally humurous oddities this play on words was indeed intended. best, Trebor >the 'blue ship' as a description of the museum in relation to media art >is better, as it rightly suggests the long time it takes for an ocean >liner / cargo ship to change directions, even slightly. it's certainly >better to be working on the blue ship than on the white star liner (aka >the titanic). >:-) >sarah > > > > >On 11 Apr 2006, at 5:57 pm, Trebor Scholz wrote: > >> Much of the discussion >> at the conference was focused on curating media art in the blue ship >> gallery or museum. Perhaps this is where the problem starts. What about >> alternative, new venues, not to talk of autonomous spaces or >> initiatives? Is the struggle over new media art just a fight for >> recognition in the blue ship art establishment? For all one knows the >> battle should rather focus on getting new media art out of the white >> cube and into other cultural spheres. >> > >