afternoon mike and all on ambit, just to say thanks to mike for shedding a bit of personal light on the syndicate/spectre turbulent (success) story - always very welcome when one is in a process of charting the rise and fall of electronic networks. moreover, mike's response is very timely and can join a discussion stream on the new spectre list - a strand of e-notes mapping a range of professional-confessional prespectives on the syndicate/spectre story - a strand, prompted by andreas and inke's article which i have re-posted to ambit a wee while ago.
thanks to both mike and francis, as well as to beverley, for affirming the need for a multi-functional network as ambit, operating both on- and off-line. having been one of the founding members of the syndicate network and most ardent believer in the syndicate ethos of balancing face-to-face with screen-to-screen cooperation since it's inception in 1996, i can subscribe to most of the arguments brought forward by mike. having gone through the same stages of fascination (very much like mike - the syndicate was my first proper e-network), contribution, involvement, celebration and later on interpassivity, disillusionment and finally resignation - i can only agree with mike and aspire to make ambit collectively into what mike writes: >Have function and need-info/knowledge/skill share/discussion/trade >A place to investigate specialisms of practices >And like all social spaces to be accomodate disagreement and jokes (its >interesting to Compare media art list seriousness with general office >playfullness) - lets not be too dour eh ? >Somwhere to set up meetings and events >Maintain cultural contact across an inhospitable land >Make travel safer > finally, i am also tempted to pick up on mike's hospitality and suggest that we can perhaps have an 'ambit get together' in dundee. maybe DCA can host such an ambit meeting sometime soon in the new year. cheers, -illie Iliyana Nedkova Associate Curator, Foundation for Art & Creative Technology (FACT) Curator-in-residence, New Media Scotland http://www.fact.co.uk http://www.mediascot.org New Media Scotland, P.O.Box 23434 Edinburgh EH7 5SZ, Scotland, UK T: +44 (0) 131 477 3774 F: +44 (0) 131 477 3775 M: +44 (0) 772 006 1349 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------
