Quite a few interesting points here. I'll restrict myself just now to topics regarding the list, but would be interested to hear others' views on the other questions Mandy raises.
At 3:02 pm +0100 11/10/01, Mandy McIntosh wrote: >I think its interesting also that one of the ambit rules is not to ask "how >to" software questions. Considering that technological community is based >on sharing, the culture of the FAQ and communal programming. Whilst I >recognise a space for specialised discourse about technology that is not >technical , Id be really interested to talk to artists who don�t know how to >use technology or actively avoid it and why to see how demographics of use >are shaped. I think the point of making this decision was to focus on discussing practice in ways other than the purely technical. I'm confident that we can all point people to more specialised technical resources about particular software, operating systems, etc. or a web search can do the same. But you raise an interesting issue too which is more generally about practice: which technologies do artists use, why and when? I think this could prove a fruitful thread. > >I also want to know why you don�t establish a message board with multiple >strands and non linear conversation. >I don�t understand how this email conversation is going to evolve. An e-mail list can also be threaded with multiple strands: one method that's very simple is to change the Subject: header field to something appropriate to the discussion you wish to engage in. So I re-named this thread 'technology and threads' for example, but someone else could just pick up one of these topics and re-name the thread accordingly. Message bulletin boards have a number of problems associated with them, but we are not ruling this out for the future. We felt e-mail was more direct, and importantly if you have a dial-up connection e-mail does not require you to be connected to the internet for long periods of time: you can connect, download mail and then disconnect. Web based solutions require more time spent online and for the majority of users this means higher phone bills. Regards Chris -------------------------------------------------------- Chris Byrne [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------- New Media Scotland tel: +44 131 477 3774 P.O. Box 23434, Edinburgh EH7 5SZ fax: +44 131 477 3775 Scotland, UK http://www.mediascot.org -------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- a m b i t : networking media arts in scotland post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] info: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and write "info ambit" in the message body -------------------------------------------------
