Subscriber Meeting 30-07-2007
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[edit] Invitation
The first new NODE.London "Subscriber's meeting" will be on:
- Mon 30 July 6.30pm - 9.30pm HTTP Gallery
This will include 8 'quickfire' presentations, each of which are 7 mins long with 14 slides. Topics include ideas on network structures, audiences and diversity, the role of alternative currencies within networks, and more!
Please come if you can and promote to your own networks - thanks.
NB if you are presenting - please submit your presentation images to saul@theps.net in advance so the process can go as smoothly and as rapidly as possible.
[edit] What happened ?
Summary (please expand)
About 35 people gathered at HTTP Gallery in Manor House, ate, drank and networked. It was a much bigger crowd than at the first 'burning' meeting, and a very nice one too.
There were five presentations, all on themes relating to NODE.London and its possible futures. The talks are all documented in the videos below. Big thanks to Tim and Renos for their work sorting this out!
[edit] Presentations
[edit] Hannah Redler
Hannah talked about audience: what NODE.London's attitude towards audience could or should be, how audiences were measured last time (not very well), and how sponsor's attitudes (esp. the Arts Council) were negatively effected by the fact that NODE.London '06 didn't seem to reach or target many audiences outside it's 'expert group' (which it targeted very well).
[edit] Ruth Catlow
Ruth talked about Openness in three areas that she saw as key to NODE.London: Art, Activism and Engineering - and how each context has different understandings of the term.
Ruth showed a beautiful venn diagram (based on the elipses of three mugs of tea) to describe the intersections of these three areas as well as the differences in understanding of 'openness' that pull the three areas apart, and created many of the tensions in NODE.London '06
[edit] Ghislaine Boddington
Ghislaine talked about her experiences setting up and using methodologies for 'deep collaboration' and interdisciplinary research with many collectives including Shinkansen and Body>Data>Space. Her methodologies mixed traditional forming/norming/storming/performing techniques of group mobilisation with more specific vocabularies and methods derived from active research and experience in the specific area of dance performance. More info: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/rescen/theweave/
[edit] Julie Freeman
Julie talked about different economic models for artistic practice, and drew on her own experiences with entrepreneurship and funding structures to show the costs and benefits of each. She suggested a five year experiment, during which NODE.London might try each model and see which bits of which ones seem to work. From the mix, she suggested that a cooperative structure might work for NODE.London - being a structure that brought people together voluntarily, that not necessarily meaning that they would be unpaid.
Slides: http://lubric.co.uk/node30/
[edit] Saul Albert
Saul talked about a piece of open source software he's been involved in developing with London Westside's New Media eXchange which is based on many of the ideas of distributed events organisation and reprepsentation that were first put together for NODE.London '06 - but this time actually work. He also talked about developing a non-exploitative/non-exploiting way of engaging with the many social networking sites that people are now using to communicate online - and pointed out that this is actually an opportunity to broaden 'audiences' for NODE.London online.
Slides: http://theps.net/saul/node30/
