For those crumb peeps on Facebook there is an interesting discussion about admin and 'ownership' of the field of media art histories taking place there now:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/mediaarthistories/permalink/10152254450784068/
I wonder if anyone has any comments about the use of online platforms to build discussion in a field and how an emerging area of scholarship can remain open and accessible beyond the institution where its main proponents work?
This strikes me as something relevant to the field of scholarship around new media art curating also, which has been through us, associated with our research centre at the University of Sunderland but which no member of CRUMB claims any particular exclusivity over, as this unmoderated mailing list on an academic server attests to (going strong for 13 years now).
Is itinerancy, or distributed and shared authorship, the best way to develop and foster interest in an area of research related to new media art? (I ask sitting in Sydney thinking of the model of ISEA and its change of place each time.) How can an emerging area of academic scholarship in a field which is inherently networked remain open to those networks? Strategies on a postcard please.
Jetlagged yours,
Sarah
Sent from my pocket.
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