OnEvent
jonCates
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# 2006.02.21 NOTES:
phase 00004: REVIEW PROPOSALS
* BrendanPeteMorganHigbyFlowersTaeyoonKim
* OnEventGame
* PerformanceInsideAndOutside
* ThreadCloud
goto the [FRAY]mework site:
++ read the 4 proposals listed above in order to prepare for an in class discussion of these proposals
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marc garrett (Furtherfield, NetBehaviour + NODE.London)
Luci Eyers (Low-Fi.org, NODE.London)
Saul Albert (dorkbot London, University of Openess, NODE.London)
Ruth Catlow (Furtherfield, NetBehaviour + NODE.London)
# DISC
NODE.London org as represented on the CRUMB listserv by Saul Albert
"I don't think NODE.London is exclusively 'grass roots', 'self-organised', or non-curated. It's very much a hybrid of those things and established mainstream cultural institutions and processes."
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" There has also been a lot of navel-gazing talk (which I'm fascinated by) about the needs to constitutionalise the process to avoid the dreaded 'Tyranny of Stucturelessness' that has limited 'grass roots' efforts in the past."
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"I think the process and practices of NODE.London
have been extremely curatorial - a process of accumulating and contextualising immaterial culture in a very rigorous and discursive way. I think the difference you're pointing at was simply that there wasn't a figurehead curator with control over curatorial minions. Rather, there was a pseudo consensual process (pseudo because it certainly wasn't adhered to strictly in any meetings I attended, thank God) that allowed curator/practitioner factions to debate each other into submission."
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"You make a good distinction between an overall curatorial framework, and the practice of curatorship in the project, The latter, motivated, as you say, by a desire to define context for practice, has been very present in NODE.London, giving it an unusual degree of coherence and clarity of programming.
I think you are right that as a framework NODE.London aspires to be non-curatorial. However, a lack of an overall curatorial framework is difficult to detect. What does the lack look like? smell like? Can you definitely tell it isn't there? That's what Geoff seems to be suggesting: that hidden beneath the layers of discursive 'collaboration', a Bilderberg-like curatorial cadre lurks, subtly manipulating everything into position. Explanations of processes, minutes of meetings, constitutions and sworn testimonies can't assail this overriding suspicion that there must be some kind of controlling entity guiding all this concordant-looking activity. Perhaps he's right and I just haven't been invited to the secret meetings yet."
- Saul Albert (dorkbot London, University of Openess, NODE.London)
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