I think that the subject line has been particularly appropriate to
the recent posts on NODE.London but something which could have been
stated more clearly, and is certainly shared is that we hope that NMC
listers will find a way of engaging with NODE.London during March
either remotely or by getting to some of the many events throughout
the month in London. You will be warmly welcome to join in.
The collective energy has been enormously positive, with a healthy
dose of dissent. It's worth mentioning that open, critical discussion
has been an ongoing feature of NODE.London's development process and
it would be a shame to mistake critical debate for negativity. I
think the reason that the discussion was initiated here (on this
list) at this point was to raise awareness and to flag up some topics
which do have a relevance to this list. In March NMC will be
focusing on The Audio Visual, with the AV06 fest around the corner. I
think that (Marc) raising NODE.London in an interventionist way now
could provoke a wider look at the curatorial role within new media
art festivals even if this is off topic for March.
I agree with Susan that a deconstruction should wait until we have
seen and experienced NODE.London in action. Maybe this discussion
should take place as part of April's Activism and Net Art Activism
theme and at that point it would be great to have some contributions
from the wider NMC list voices.
best wishes,
Luci
http://www.nodel.org
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