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my copy just arrived (now I have a postal address). it looks great! congrats to all involved. so far I've read the SCANZ, free documentation and archiving articles and flipped through to look at the pictures (very high quality!) the best thing I like about NZ arts is that you make your own fun. I was speaking to an Aus friend the other week and he was complaining that he was missing out on all the festivals and exhibitions as he was in Brisbane not UK/Europe (he was at isea though). I suggested he could always make his own fun and start a festival or symposium and gave examples of the NZ ADA community and Audio Foundation which I think are amazing. you guys just don't wait for someone to ask you to do something/collaborate - you just get out there and do it yourselves. ...

Hi all, Stella and I are thrilled to announce the launch of the ADA Reader at
ISEA Singapore on the 28th July at 12.30. The book will be launched by
the New Zealand High Commissioner to Singapore. Please join in the celebrations (invitation attached - if it lets
me!). And if you can't make it Singapore (like me) then please come to
the New Zealand launch in Auckland at St Paul St. on the 15th August
at 5.30. We hope you can get your hands on a copy, published by clouds, and
available off their website or at the openings it will retail for $60
incl. GST. Thanks to the wonderful ADA community for all the great articles and
images. warm regards su ...

Game off March on -empyre-

"Video games are the first stage in a plan for machines to help the human race, the only plan that offers a future for intelligence. For the moment, the insufferable philosophy of our time is contained in the Pac-Man. I didn't know, when I was sacrificing all my coins to him, that he was going to conquer the world. Perhaps because he is the most graphic metaphor of Man's Fate. He puts into true perspective the balance of power between the individual and the environment, and he tells us soberly that though there may be honor in carrying out the greatest number of victorious attacks, it always comes a cropper." - Chris Marker, 'Sunless' ...

Game off March on -empyre-

"Video games are the first stage in a plan for machines to help the human race, the only plan that offers a future for intelligence. For the moment, the insufferable philosophy of our time is contained in the Pac-Man. I didn't know, when I was sacrificing all my coins to him, that he was going to conquer the world. Perhaps because he is the most graphic metaphor of Man's Fate. He puts into true perspective the balance of power between the individual and the environment, and he tells us soberly that though there may be honor in carrying out the greatest number of victorious attacks, it always comes a cropper." - Chris Marker, 'Sunless' ...

this might be of interest to some ada folks - all for papers, & below a conference announcement, "The Intermedial City : Practices, Technologies, Imaginaries", in montreal. CRI is the centre for research in intermediality at montreal university, i was there for a conference on theatre. they do lots of interesting stuff (quite academic & lots of it in french) ...

Hi all, here are the notes from Sunday in glorious Plaintext. Thanks to
everyone who made it. There are a number of conversations that it would be good to continue
onlist, so please read on: * ...

On 2/3/06, su b wrote: >

Just very quicky, and i really don't want to interrupt the archiving discussion, but for those of you interested there is a great debate going on on the
IdC list about "conference formats". been in action for about a week. check the archives - below... cheers su

iDC -- mailing list of the Institute for Distributed Creativity
(distributedcreativity.org) iDC at bbs.thing.net http://mailman.thing.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/idc ...

Brave and important words

there is a mjor activity going on after the refresh symposium to provide tools for sharing archival databases; and also to discuss the critical issue ofg maintaining digital works when formats, tools and platforms go pftt - and they do - don't be fooled that proliferation means permanence: one archivist recommended printing hardcopy of code as the only way to preserve 1960s digital arts. Our formats are if anything less robust. ...

The National Library of New Zealand has a large chunck of money to build and maintain the National Digital Heritage Archive. This has a relationship to recent changes to the copyright act which extended the concept of legal deposit, to enable them to collect electronic material, and store, preserve, and provide access to in the future. I don't think there is any public documentation on this - it seems to be falling under the umbrella of the NZ Digital Strategy. ...

Hi Kath,

I know a lovely person in Wellington who works as an archivist of sorts for web content. She stayed at my house around New Year but I forgot to ask all the questions I had about what her job exactly was. I suspect it's a bit like PANDORA in that it selects important web content at various times to be archived, except I guess it's more NZ-centric. I'm not sure what they do with the content once it's archive, I did a[n evil] Google search and couldn't find anything. ...

Hi Luke, psb

On 1/30/06, Luke Duncalfe wrote: > >

Hi guys, I'm not sure if you're familiar with PANDORA Archive. http://pandora.nla.gov.au ...

Hi Paul,

Danny posted a mention of this a few days ago, but in case the information got buried it was that we're looking at the possibility of resurrecting both codec and spatial state as digitally restored websites on their own domains. Kind of like bringing back the dead. Danny has contacted Rob about the files for spatial state, and has most of codec himself, so between that, perhaps contacting other people and using the web.archive.org hopefully most could be brought back. Exactly how much restoration and what form that would take is to be found out... ...

Hm

Thoughts from a lurker

It is interesting to reflect on the role of institutions and archiving. ...

Hi ada, ive been following the discussion but haven't pitched in as yet. so I'm introducing my multifunction self , as well all tend to be in the media arts.. ...

Hi ADA list members,

Prior to Emerge I just wanted to introduce SCANZ, which will happen between the 3rd and 16th of July 2006. Our hope is that this is the first of a two yearly event, although the form, shape and location of further events is under discussion. ...

Danny's onto a good idea here: one big project is rarely a good idea (see ICANN)

but what is a good idea is the inter in internet: the interoperability of projects such as curatorial and archival. The refresh group is working on this interoperability idea; they know that existing, often highly sophisticated and often very large archives are incompatible in any obvious eay, ad are researching at the coding level scripts that will allows searches acropss a number of them ...

Hi,

in discussing digital art and sound art archives, Lissa has raised the interesting issue of whether existing organisations have a mandate to do so, which leads us back to earlier discussion of the implications of the context for such projects - art historical, institutional, regional etc. ...