[LAC-19] Keynando

[Romain Michon]

Keynando... I love it ;).

On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 4:21 PM Matt Wright <matt at ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:

> +1
>
> Sent from a handheld typo device with autocorrect
>
> On Nov 9, 2018, at 1:21 AM, Romain Michon <rmichon at ccrma.Stanford.EDU>
> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I haven't heard back from anyone on this:
>
> *Keynote*
>>
>> First, as you know, we contacted Leslie Garcia to ask her to be the
>> keynote speaker for LAC about three weeks ago. Since we didn't get any
>> reply from her, we sent her another e-mail earlier this week using the same
>> address and a different one, just to be sure. We still haven't heard back
>> from her! This means that we need a backup plan... As a reminder, here's
>> the original shortlist that we had:
>>
>> - Leslie Garcia (http://lessnullvoid.cc/content/) -- Chris believes that
>> the Stanford Arts Institute could help us bring her on campus
>> - Nancy Mauro-Flude (http://sister0.org/?whosthatgirl) -- Perhaps the
>> Stanford Arts Institute could help us bring her as well (she lives in
>> Singapore)
>> - Pamela Z (http://www.pamelaz.com/cv.html) -- Local artist
>> - Laetitia Sonami (http://sonami.net/bio/) -- Local artist
>> - Marije Baalman (https://marijebaalman.eu/)
>> - Natasha Barett (https://www.natashabarrett.org/)
>>
>> Should we try to contact Nancy Mauro-Flude? Her flight will be more
>> expensive since she lives in Singapore. This also means that we'd have to
>> ask the Stanford Art Institute again if they would be willing to give us
>> some funding for her to come, etc. Any thoughts on that? Any other
>> suggestions?
>>
>
> I think we need to take action now... Still no news from Leslie Garcia
> despite the various rounds of e-mails that I sent her on different
> addresses. Should we ask Nancy Mauro-Flude? Yes? No? I talked about this
> situation to Yann, Albert Graef, etc. and here's a crazy (and may be
> slightly conservative in this context) idea: what if..... Nando was the
> keynote speaker (I'm sure he probably jumped on his seat reading this
> haha)? All the people I asked think it's a good idea. :) I think it would
> solve many problems. So unless someone wants to take the lead on this and
> keep looking for another keynote speaker, I would advocate this solution.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Romain
>
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Romain Michon
Lecturer and Researcher
Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
Stanford Universityhttps://ccrma.stanford.edu/~rmichon
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