[anet08banff] Artsmesh Fest

[Ken Fields]

Hello,
Would there be any interest in coordinating an annual festival where  
we can all mesh together in some form of organized chaos. I myself  
would like to coordinate a 3 week intensive summer course to coincide  
with such a distributed event (proposing late July), which would give  
artists-in-residence (likely those without year-round internet 2  
connections) a chance to hook-up with collaborators/expertise more  
easily.

I realize a natural cycle of localized/networked events will  
eventually form, but on the other hand a predictable annual event  
would allow us to gather more than ordinary forces together for  
massive-multi-nodal experimentation and foster additional synergy  
between different mediums involved in networked arts.

It would also serve to offer the field its own platform for write-up  
and critique, though with the idea being to intentionally NOT use  
airplanes to gather.

Ken


Dr. Kenneth Fields
Canada Research Chair, Telemedia Arts
Associate Professor, Department of Music
Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science
http://syneme.ucalgary.ca

kfields at ucalgary.ca
Office: 403.220.5254
Cell: 403.870.1034
Fax: (403) 284-0973

Department of Music, Faculty of Fine Arts
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2500 University Drive NW
Calgary AB T2N 1N4
Canada

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