<x-flowed>johannes wrote: >dear community: > >... >---such positions could then inform future joint workshops or festivals >or meetings (IDAT..?.....), You may have noticed that IDAT is missing from Johannes' list of upcoming events. This is because The University of Surrey has withdrawn from IDAT01, and at the moment there is no other institution or organisation set to take on the event. It would be an enormous shame to see IDAT disappear. Over the years it has just got better and better, and Arizona set standards that will be hard to match. On the other hand, maybe this is part of the end of the ghettoisation - many mainstream festivals are beginning to take on technologically challenging work, and other conferences are including performance and technology issues. What do people think? As the next IDAT is in the British court (no pun intended...), I'd like to ask any European folks on the list if they would like to mail to me (PLEASE SEND TO ME, r.povall@mdx.ac.uk, not the list): * whether you have an interest in getting involved in the next IDAT's organisation * whether you have a specific thought about where it might be held * whether your organisation/institution would have an interest in hosting the event * anything related! Depending on the level of response, I'm willing to arrange a meeting in London within the next month or two to see if we can look at the options for the next IDAT in the UK. I have a strong preference for London - for lots of reasons - but it certainly doesn't have to be. More than anything else, we need a commitment from a large institution who can back the event. I'm imagining we would be aiming for at least spring 2002. If there isn't much of a response to this, then I think we should throw this wide open again to bids from anywhere in the world. If you have general thoughts about this, please send them to the list. If you want to respond specifically about expressing interest in the UK IDAT, please mail me direct. I will undertake to collate all those mailings and report back to the list. Thanks, r R i c h a r d P o v a l l Senior Fellow, RESCEN (Centre for Research into Creation in the Performing Arts), Middlesex University (in assoc. with the South Bank, London) ========================= Court Gate Cottage, Harbourneford, South Brent, Devon TQ10 9DT UK. Home/Studio: +44 (0)1364 72044 Fax: +44 (0)1364 72046 </x-flowed>
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : 03/28/01 CST