Thanks Scott for all the years that u have put into This Week in the Avant Garde it was not done in vain. Thanks
Dominic > On Feb 21, 2021, at 8:57 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > Hi all, someone asked me offline about the status of This Week in Avant Garde > CInema, so I thought I’d post my response here. > > Since 1996 (25 years ago!) I’ve been producing or overseeing volunteers > producing This Week in Avant Garde Cinema, a weekly listing of experimental > film/video events around the world. I and a handful of volunteers initially > entered the events manually every week, and in the early 2000s I converted it > to a DIY system where venues and makers could enter their own listings. This > worked well for a while, but as the ubiquity of social media grew, people > started listing shows on other channels such as Facebook, and not TWIAGC. I > developed some scripting to integrate those listings into TWIAGC, but it > became a game of whack-a-mole keeping up with variations. > > When the pandemic hit last year and physical exhibitions stopped happening. I > put the project on pause. (You can still see the last post here > <http://www.hi-beam.net/whats.html>.) I considered continuing it with online > shows, but as the number of those grew that too started to seem daunting. And > frankly, though I still enjoyed seeing the weekly compendium of some of the > amazing shows happening across the U.S. and elsewhere, after nearly 25 years > I was a bit tired of maintaining and overseeing it. > > So at this point, even after physical shows start to come back, I will no > longer be producing This Week in Avant Garde Cinema. > > That said, the data entered for the previous listings still exists. While not > all events were always included, the listings do provide a rich historical > snapshot of thousands of events taking place over the last 20+ years. > > And if someone with a lot of energy wants to take this on again, I’d be happy > to help them get started. > > Thanks for all the well-wishes and appreciation for this resource over the > years. Stay safe and creative. > > Scott > > Scott Stark > www.scottstark.com <http://www.scottstark.com/> > > -- > Frameworks mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org > <https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org>
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