I don¹t travel around to look at art. I agree, that would be a luxury. I travel to put art in front of audiences or to attend meetings that are intended to make things happen, or setup new connections between institutions, artists and others, or assist others in achieving their aims. The creative arts are international and should be, with people everywhere able to place their work before global audeinces and those audiences able to access art from anywhere. Where art is material in nature the artefacts need to travel, as do the artists and curators. It is, in the end, all about discourse and the exchange of information and other resources. Only so much can be done via the internet and, as has been pointed out, that is possibly a false economy anyway (bandwidth has a carbon footprint too).
We could join the slow-movement and only consume food, culture and resources produced on our doorstep...but wouldn¹t this mean a return to a time when we were all provincial and could only see as far as our own local interest, as far as our own nose? I think discourse (exchange) is the means by which people and society get smarter and improve things (sort of paraphrasing Newton¹s comments on giant¹s shoulders). Global discourse is a wonderful thing and we want to ensure it is sustainable. My feeling is that the means to do that are more likely to be developed through global discourse than through pulling our horns in and staying at home. But we can all learn to turn off the lights and use energy efficient alternatives. Regards Simon Simon Biggs Research Professor edinburgh college of art s.bi...@eca.ac.uk www.eca.ac.uk www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ si...@littlepig.org.uk www.littlepig.org.uk AIM/Skype: simonbiggsuk From: richard willis <listse...@richtextformat.co.uk> Reply-To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:12:23 +0100 To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org> Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] We won't fly for art : Take the Pledge hey all i took this pledge, but it's easy for me as i barely get any time to dedicate to art as it is, the idea that i would have the time and money to fly somewhere to see it is almost absurd. for some of you guys it looks more challenging, and it really the challenged that should be taking this pledge. for me it's like saying 'i pledge to carry on pretty much as i already am doing'. if you really need to fly to the art, because you live in rochdale or reykvavik or whatever and the local scene is a bit flat, perhaps you should be putting energy into revitalising that local scene, rather than spend time surfing for cheap flights to new york. r. 2009/4/16 Tim Cowlishaw <t...@timcowlishaw.co.uk> > > On 16 Apr 2009, at 10:10, helen varley jamieson wrote: > >> > yes turning off lights & appliances, & not overheating buildings, is >> > just as (maybe more?) important as reducing flights & driving. i don't >> > have the stats but i understand that even turning off things like >> > computers & stereos at the wall can make a difference. > > I think the point is though, that it's not an either / or. We need to > be doing all of the above, and urgently. If people's personal > circumstances make this difficult / impossible that's a seperate > issue, but we can't really be using energy efficiency in some areas to > jsutify extravagence in others - it's basically the same offsetting, > but on a personal scale, and it doesn't work. > > > Cheers, > > Tim > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour -- richtextformat Ltd. | company number: 06699372 http://richtextformat.co.uk | ad...@richtextformat.co.uk | 078 0706 2090 -- _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC009201
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