Dear Faces, Dear Netbehaviourists, First of all, I want to thank everyone who responded so kindly to the sad news of my husband Peter’s death last November (http://eliot.at/blog/2011/11/saying-good-bye-to-peter/). I’m sorry I still haven’t managed to thank everyone personally, but I am very grateful for every single message.
As many of you probably know, Peter was a violin maker who specialized in baroque bowed string instruments. In the past months, with the help of so many generous people, I have been clearing out his workshop to be able to turn it into kind of project space, which is to be made available to people who just need some space to be able to realize their ideas. The space consists of a large empty room (about 35 m2) for all kinds of creative uses, from performance development and rehearsal to seminars, readings, etc. The front room has a comfortable sitting corner with two pull-out beds (one single, one double) for small meetings, conversations over coffee, simple overnight accommodation. There is also a small tea kitchen and a desk for my new assistant, Patrick Owusu-Afriye, and there is a bathroom with a shower. We are not quite ready to officially launch the “Werkstatt am Hauptplatz” (“Workshop in the Main Square”), but far enough that I would like to extend an invitation now each of the two mailing lists that have been especially important to me, because all of your posts and discussions keep reminding me that there is still a world outside my currently constrained life that I want to rejoin. If members of either Faces or NetBehaviour plan to be in Linz during Ars Electronica this year (http://www.aec.at/thebigpicture/en/), I would like to invite you to use the Workshop as a meeting place during the festival. Perhaps we could arrange a time and date for a members’ meeting for each list, but you are also welcome to come by, take a look, share coffee, use the wireless Internet access... Please just let me know if you are interested, so that I can make sure that either I or Patrick is there to welcome you. Since we are still in the experimental phase of setting things up, we would appreciate any suggestions you might have about what we still need. If you won’t be in Linz for the Ars, but possibly have plans to come to Linz some time in the future, please let me know if you think you might be interested in using the Workshop. I would be very happy to hear from you. All the best, Aileen P.S. I also have more room for guests at home, and my two cats and I always like having visitors. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
