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Dear list It is getting towards the end of the year - and before everyone disappears for christmas activities CRUMB would like to send all members on the list, artists, cultural producers, curators, theorists best wishes. . . We would also like to send out a short exciting announcement before the turn: In the spring 2008 New York based media theorist Caitlin Jones will join CRUMB for research and an event as part of The Inspiring Internationalists programme. http://inspiringinternationalists.wordpress.com/. Caitlin’s focus will be on preservation issues in relation to electronic and ephemeral artworks. Working closely with the CRUMB team a workshop (which is also part of the AV festival http://www.avfest.co.uk/) led by Caitlin invites institutions as well as individual cultural producers to converse about practicalities, tools and policies that emerge with the fast increasing number of ‘storage systems’. Questions around open archives, circulation systems, and the maintenance of data and experiences, might be starting points for an interesting discussion. How does contemporary work, that describes a Moment, if you like, re-contextualise former attempts of the Ephemeral in art? Do recent notions such as enactment or re-enactment do something different to the work and its audience? Does the role of the archivist get blurred considering interdisciplinary practices that media art brings along? And for those of you who followed up or contributed to the discussion on the iDC list the idea of shelf live could taken up more specifically in relation to curatorial practices?! (iDC -- mailing list of the Institute for Distributed Creativity; distributedcreativity.org. https://mailman.thing.net/mailman/listinfo/idc) Hopefully we will inspire lots of different practitioners to get an exciting ‘document’ together or a fluid archive. . . Save the date!!! Caitlin Jones workshop, Wedn 5 March 2008, 2-5pm, venue: Dance City, Newcastle. Attendance is by application, as we have a limited number of spaces, please reply to my if you want to book. [log in to unmask] More details to follow in the new year****** All the best Verina CRUMB