The history of Third Eye Centre/CCA is not quite as straightforward as that. As far as I'm aware, the Scottish Arts Council own the building, and have since the Third Eye Centre was established.
Artists were indeed involved in setting up the Third Eye Centre, including playwrights, authors and others from a broad range of backgrounds. Comparing CCA with GOMA is not really very useful in my opinion: GOMA was Julian Spalding's last populist gesture as Director of Glasgow Museums, and has a very different origin and remit to that of CCA/Third Eye Centre. On the question of Defence industry conferences at CCA - I agree with others that more information would be useful. How did you hear about it, Gair? Chris At 3:11 pm +0100 4/10/02, torsten lauschmann wrote: >Hi List, >As far as I remember the ex-CCA (Third Eye Center) was an artist-run Art >Center which had to close down due to financial problems. It reopend as the >CCA. It was now a government -run space and therefore had different >political and economical agendas. The involvment with the Ministry of >Defence seem to be only a logical progression from that change. >Additionally the current managment seem to be not particularly interested in >contemporary Art. A change in Directorship might improve the situation, but >at the end of the day it is still is a government -run institution. An >alternative might be, what the majority of artists are already doing , to >ignore the CCA as they ignore the Gallery of Modern Art (Glasgow) and create >better alternatives. (..and there are plenty! cheaper and tastier >cappochinos, too). >See you there. >Torsten -- -------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------
