Hi Edward, This is all extremely useful information.
"Can you explain to anybody who might not have heard of it what Arduino is?" Yes - of course, which is what I intended to say but did not... And all the other comments will be part of a personal list to help put it all in line. In fact, much of what you have said has been discussed between us at furtherfield since, so I think we are on the right tracks :-) Also, thanks for these comments as well "what was really nice about the programme was the feeling of friendly informality. Your voice is a very good one for the radio, I think, because you don't sound at all pompous or up your own arse, let alone smooth and smarmy - a nice bit of John Peel-style rummaging in your papers as you went along - and some nice down to earth remarks about how much things cost, what good value the catalogues were, and all that stuff. And I also liked your choice of musical tracks, especially that first one." As you may know, John Peel is probably the closest to a hero I have, especially when I do not believe in such things as a principle... Great stuff... wishing you well. marc > Marc - > > I'm going to be a little bit more critical about this. I think you've > got a slight problem about visualising your audience - which is to say > that at one moment your asking questions which seem to suppose that > your audience members might not be very au fait with new media and > network art at all - "Can you explain to anybody who might not have > heard of it what Arduino is?" - but the next minute you're chatting > about things which presuppose some quite advanced knowledge of the > field. If you're going to get beyond the circle of people who are > already into new media art and who know all about Furtherfield, > Turbulence, Rhizome etc. etc., then you probably need to be quite > structured in the way you approach your subject matter. For example, > as regards the interview with the guy from the V&A, I think it would > have probably been an idea to start by saying that the V&A have > currently got two exhibitions on the go, one called Decode dealing > with contemporary digital art, and the other one called Digital > Pioneers dealing with the history of computer art - and maybe a brief > description of what the two exhibitions are like (like a very boiled > down version of Rob's review), with perhaps a few broad comments about > whether you think they're worth a visit and if so why. This stuff > pretty much all came out in the course of the interview, but if I was > a listener who didn't know anything about the subject I'd like a nice > clear introduction to what was going to be under discussion before the > discussion began: something to give me points of reference, and thus a > feeling of not being out of my depth. The same goes for the MsTech > item (am I spelling that right?) - I think it would have helped to say > what the MsTech team were setting out to do, how long they'd been > around for, where they were based or where they're operating > currently, and then start the interview. > > Having said this, what was really nice about the programme was the > feeling of friendly informality. Your voice is a very good one for the > radio, I think, because you don't sound at all pompous or up your own > arse, let alone smooth and smarmy - a nice bit of John Peel-style > rummaging in your papers as you went along - and some nice down to > earth remarks about how much things cost, what good value > the catalogues were, and all that stuff. And I also liked your choice > of musical tracks, especially that first one. > > - Edward > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
