Hallo Maria --
I agree with you that not many artists would be prepared to do so. I think it is very sad that academic conferences tend to exclude people with no academic affiliation / income that would allow them to pay the registration fee.The conferences, in my view, are poorer and more homogenous as a result.
I am aware of the good work you have done in the past invoking human networks and dialogue, so, be sure that I view this as only an opportunity to raise what imho is becoming an ever more exclusive issue. We are in a situation that demands other models and other behaviors towards the institutions that impose this form of poverty through indentured servitude...
One of those models is simple human encounter, (David Bohm's dialogue) encumbered by as little institutional weight/baggage as possible. It would seem that at the level of institutionalization of relation that is happening generally in tertiary ed (and elsewhere) is precluding our best options...
so it goes. jh -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
