Curator's Report
[March 15, 2007]
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This report is formatted in 5 parts:
i. The View from Here
ii. The Incident & its Perpetrators
iii. Future View
iv. Thanks
& "Other Reactions"
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 i. THE VIEW FROM HERE
It is said that a burnt child dreads the fire, but I'd prefer
to think that what makes us human is actually that a burnt child
thus begins to *learn* fire.
So, what's to say of CeC & CaC 2007? That it seems to
have been magic for all involved??
Sure it was that. That's as easy as a beer-binge.
But there's a lot more to it than just that.
Good folks traveled great distances from all over India and
the world to create this incredible incident all together with
us, and though we certainly didn't get anywhere near to filling
up stadiums with raucous revelers getting together for a fleeting
bit of shared fun (that beer-binge?), what did spring forth were
innumerable new and rich relationships between all of the different
sorts of wonderful e-Creative, and also non-e-Creative, folks
who chose to be involved in so many different ways with this
singular and most peculiar opportunity.
And what was particularly wonderful about it to me was that
almost everyone's associated interest and work seemed to have
been individually carried forward in some way or another by being
bathed in the fascinating crosscurrents and interstices of the
whole incident.
But of course, what stood out as "Exhibit-A" was
the total absence of corporate and governmental association,
involvement, or support, which is such a pity at the dawning
of such an exciting age of potentially massive mass-creativity.
On the other hand, direct institutional support was of course
primarily marked by India International Centre (IIC) and The
Academy of Electronic Arts (The AeA) themselves, as organizing
partners.
And, indirect institutional associations robustly endorsed
the basic thrust of this partnership and intent, with direct
support to some of the participants for them to be with us, from:
 Social Science & Humanities
Research Council of Canada
Simon Fraser University
Bandish ~ The School of Music
The Digital Academy at University
of North Carolina Pembroke
CRCA, Calit2 and the EGL at University
of California San Diego
Cultural Division, Embassy of
Israel in India
Maeer MIT's Institute of Design
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Pretty good by any measure, even though the list is missing
a lot of what I do believe it should not, especially from within
India itself.
After all, this was about artists and scientists and philosophers
and designers and filmmakers and students and web-professionals
and social-scientists and social interventionists and even those
working to empower the challenged amongst us, all coming together
on a common platform of connecting, questioning and sharing,
with great gathered learning and all goodwill on all sides, across
the common foundation of shared, or intersecting, e-Creative
tools and practices.
And, it was also about conjuring a wonderful opportunity for
good folks of all description to share quality time with such
people and each other across the three days of CeC & CaC
2007, through nearly all of which nearly all were right there,
together, as friends!
I am grateful, and feel deeply privileged for that.
What an incredible once-in-a-lifetime experience it was for
me, personally, to walk the streets of Old Delhi a few days before
the event, with profound good bonhomie in the company of the
incomparable Lawrence Casserley, the incredible Curtis Bahn,
and marvelous Martin Gotfrit, looking for electronic-tanpuras
and singing-bowls and solder and jacks and cables and other such
odd things of all things, around an epic lunch in Karim's, and
so much else!
And then, by an interesting series of related circumstances
on the side, I flew out just two days after our own circus was
done, to speak at a seminar on the sidelines of the massive "Arco
Art Festival 2007" in Madrid, and believe me, the entire
experience of that only made me feel just that much more strongly
how right we were to do our own thing entirely our own way in
New Delhi over that magic wet weekend in New Delhi, mid-February
2007.
And so is that the case as I review an email invitation received
just this morning, for a massive "International Conference
on Contemporary Art in Asia" that is due up in New Delhi,
mid-March 2007.
To me, these are all about what has been happening all over
the place in any case, whereas I do certainly hope that what
we are doing is about closing some of the gaps on what is *not*
happening.
The good news is that the seamless goodwill network that we
tap into, and also contribute to globally, seems clearly to have
grown subtly but richly wider with this incident, even though
this might not be so apparent to some others.
On the Indian front ~ it is clear that we have made an independent
breakthrough into some exciting categories of students and young
adults here, as most handsomely manifested in Rishab Parmar,
Kamal Chawla and their very special friends, who served as our
volunteer co-hosts in the incident this time, along with the
incomparable Tim Calonius, of Finland and Dehradun.
For me, having Ashhar Farooqui once again deliver a special
performance is also in itself an ongoing breakthrough with other
fascinating young adults here in Delhi. And, it is quite clear
to me that the NID New Media coordinator and students would have
been with us again formally, as they were last time, and as several
of them informally indeed were this time, if not for an inconveniently
timed internal changeover (they did send in a short video though).
It is equally clear from ongoing communications that we shall
have more such institutions of creative education from the cutting-edge
here in India join us in such mischief going forward.
Even as I write this, I have just received the first invitation
of my lifetime from a *student* body to deliver them a personal
presentation on e-Creativity and our work with it, as part of
their annual-festival in a pretty funky creativity college in
Delhi. And it is good to know that almost all of my co-participants
in CeC & CaC 2007 have also moved on into exciting new territories,
at least partly as a result of having been involved with the
whole incident.
Meanwhile, we have also already established an outstanding
breach-head on drawing in interesting new sectors of e-Creative
scientific and developmental practice.
So, it seems to me that the basic event-matrix is basically
alright, presenting an ample landscape of windows open to further
improvements into the future, with good friends as advisors to
each other and me on it across continents, and sometimes across
even greater other divides.
~x~
ii. THE INCIDENT & ITS PERPETRATORS
Day-1a. Began this time with a properly closed-door Change-agents
Conclave (CaC) in the morning, starting with coffee/tea and cookies
in the rooftop pergola, and then proceeding more formally in
the rooftop Conference Room #2. Only participants and a few others
were invited into this "Private Meeting", adding up
to an intimate group of not more than 35 people at any given
time, ranged carefully through from young students to greybeards,
all seated around the same table as 'equals' of a sort, to amiably
learn of each other and possibly seek out joint purpose(s).
The matrix of discourse was by a simple system of rotating
the chair between my cocurators and myself, and then rotating
nominations from these rotating chairs, and so on, so as to eventually
draw everyone into the whole stew, thereby sort of intuitively
uncovering and following through the course(s) of possibly shared
direction(s) and/or intent(s).
In my estimation, this worked by many measures better than
almost any meeting of any such kind that I might have ever attended
in my life, primarily in that we eventually all walked out to
share a nice Chettinad-Chicken lunch in the pergola as real new
friends, real new associates, and real new co-owners on carrying
through the rest of the entire incident itself, towards mutual
and general public benefit. And of course, this was also an outstanding
opportunity for sharing out special treats, such as the guerilla
intervention of Igor Stromajer and Brane Zorman, by CD-distribution.
Day-1b. CaC was originally intended to spin out informally
into a couple of parties after that lunch: one to get into the
auditorium and set it up for the evening performances and also
the following 2 days; and the other to go and hang out the exhibition
in the Gandhi-King Plaza; with Suresh Pal and some others of
the IIC crew standing by to lend a hand in both cases.
In the event however, we had unseasonal rain, so the exhibition
was reduced a bit and spread indoors instead, around the lobby
right outside the auditorium, which luckily also boosted viewer-numbers
with a pretty high volume of unrelated visitor-traffic.
What showed in this matrix were 2 printed images each from
Ravi Pasricha, John Labadie, Margie Labadie, Ashim Ghosh, Dan
McCormack and myself, an interactive carromboard installation
from Surajit Sarkar, and also my own framed versions of The IDEA
series of CD-gazettes, and an annotated clone of the simple midi-board
that I'd made as a part of my personal presentation(s) for CeC
& CaC 2007. Dhananjay Gadre's MaJaTron eventually didn't
come through, as a couple of glass parts had accidentally been
broken when a couple of students and he had gotten together just
a day or two before the incident to change a couple of LEDs in
preparation for it.
Day-1c. Here began the *public* segments of the incident.
And, as so carefully planned this time, we launched off the evening
of performances on the back of an entirely 'traditional' opening-invocation,
with Aparna Panshikar resonantly describing Ganesa in the Hamsadhvani
Raaga, against the backdrop of tabla by the inimitable Ansuman
Biswas.
And after that came I, with my bumbling DIY ~ homemade guitar
feeding into mixertrack-1; via Chinese clip-bender on the head;
through basic hardware delay for basic good sound for starters;
distilled directly down into output stereo-mix for zero latency;
also looped back into computer via Aux-1; wherein PD patch commands
parallel pitches and delays, in different ways; alongside semi-randomized
sound-synthesizer generating background audio cusps; with basic
oscillator and modulator for background soundclouds and flashes;
piano play-keys for a couple of interjections; a basic drum-logic
controlled by homemade midi-controller, formulated as guitar-strap;
all feeding back into mixer tracks-2 & 3 to be also distilled
down into the output stereo-mix; with,.. a barebones video-jockeying
platform to swing one final surprise at the end, which eventually
did not manage to make it out through the projector to screen.
Nevertheless, I did actually manage to hold almost everyone
to their seats for perhaps half an hour ~ on which, investigations
are of course presently underway towards determining how much
of this should be credited to just pure politeness on the part
of a largely sympathetic audience towards a largely harmless
little old man ~:o)
And, there is also the little matter of how many of those
good folks were actually just waiting for Ashhar Farooqui to
come on after me, with Choden Yolmo lending lead and backing
vocals, and Ranjan Dewan embroidering everything with his stylish
guitarplaying, as Ashhar himself went from reading obscure old
texts, strumming guitar, singing verses and laughing to himself
at nuggets along the way, through to jumpy live-mixing of all
sorts of wildly beautiful aural bouquets that he had so specially
prepared and gathered together for that fascinating sampler-supported
live performance that he shared with us all that very special
night.
Day-2a. This dawned to a dropout from the first session of
public presentations, scheduled for that morning, which fortunately
did not seem to matter to anyone at all. We were all in a "too-bad-for-you-if-you-miss-this"
mode by now.
As usual in any case, I was scheduled to go first, partly
as event-director, but partly also so as to buffer the others
against the trickle-in factor of every Delhi public for every
such event, or incident. And so, I got myself down to some babble
about CeC & CaC itself, about The IDEA, about this and about
that, dipping into my ample resource-base of all sorts of materials
all along the way. Which seemed to have gone over well enough
with everyone, again as usual.
Parvez Imam then took the stage, to present a premiere public-screening
of his lovely little film, "Flight 208", which went
over famously with everyone gathered, drawing Parvez himself
to then further glaze the treat with his droll humour through
the course of a quick Q&A with the approving audience.
Dhananjay Gadre was sadly still lost in looking to somehow
repair or replace his broken glass parts, and therefore also
didn't eventually make it in for his presentation.
But, I did manage to ensnare the otherwise so-elusive young
Nitin Bal Chauhan up at the unaccompanied screenings going on
in Conference Room #2, and dragged him in to present excerpts,
overviews and insights upon his hauntingly beautiful first film,
"Lost & Found",.. which has since had all sorts
of funny folks contact me about having a copy and permission
for screenings for themselves. So, I'm probably also going to
have to see the whole thing through myself sometime soon~:o).
What remained behind in Conference Room #2, was the day's
schedule for screenings of unaccompanied presentations, including
Nitin's full film; the showreel from the Asian Festival of 1st
Films; Anuradha Chandra's abstract "The Trace"; Satoshi
Matsuyama's beautiful "Movement in Still Spaces"; the
two views of New Media Art at NID, by the students and Tom Chambers
respectively; the 1st Cologne Online Film Festival, entitled
'Genderscapes'; Tara Douglas's lovely Bastar myth; excerpts from
the Epica Awards reel for 2006; all of the "transmedial.06
video selection"; and finally the installation of Sheldon
Brown's interactive "The Scalable City v2.0" through
the late-afternoon into evening.
And it was nice to have a few good people really hooked to
all of that, through all of that, up on that octagonal rooftop
room through that day and the next too.
Meanwhile, presentations moved on to see Curtis Bahn share
an incredibly generous exposition of his extended sitar and the
complex, but so beautiful, matrix of software abstractions and
patches that he's been developing over the years, through the
SBass phase and even earlier, to work with his stringed instruments,
and to also now work with at least one Hindustani Classical vocalist,
automatically tracking her, reacting to her, and even learning
from her how better to do so along the way.
Into that flowed wonderful Lawrence Casserley, bringing in
his extraordinary vision and perspective upon so dissimilar a
usage of so similar a set of tools and resources. What extraordinary
journeys to take even such simple sounds upon! And, as had happened
to me with Lawrence last time too, my low level of comprehension
of all of the logic, relevance and direction of all of these
goings-on moved inexorably a wee little notch further forward,
possibly in dangerously diversionary directions from actually
doing works such as CeC & CaC itself, since it does also
knock my need-to-know mindspace into higher gear!
Kireet Khurana then generously shared his experiences and
works with all sorts of animation in India, over the past decade
or so, ranged all the way up from animation workshops for children
through cutting-edge advertising work.
Arun Mehta in turn let us all have a little look into his
fascinating world of work with some of the challenged amongst
us, and how challenging, and creative, it was in itself to even
just conceive of a software that could, for example, allow one
to type and thus virtually also say almost anything one might
wish to, by just clicking through an interactive matrix of cues
and words and shortcuts and so on, using as little as just a
single button or other simple sensor for one's tool.
And Ansuman Biswas positively regaled all with his silver
tongue carrying us off in all sorts of odd directions of exploration
and query, for all sorts of odd reasons and rationales, even
having me, and god knows how many others, laugh myself to tears
along the way at his brazenly spunky and hilariously spoofy little
old 'Zero-Genie' movie, of flight and also simulated flight,
in a Russian Vomit Comet.
Day-2b: The second evening of performances; a veritable feast
that brought deep traditions into airily experimental symbioses
with various young and old technologies. Aparna again kicked
this off, but this time, she began singing to the accompaniment
of Curtis Bahn's special software; and then also with Curtis
himself, and his experimentally expanding sitar; followed in
by Lawrence too, who carried off all sorts of sounds along the
way, on all sorts of amazing different journeys; with Ansuman
popping in and out every now and again, twanging a sarod here,
beating tablas there, blowing a bamboo fife, tinkling a toy xylophone,
and eventually even bursting into a string of bubbling Bengali
babble-rap and neo-vocal-percussion.
This was about experimentation at the edge, sometimes teetering
over into miscues and misconnections, but just as often also
conjuring beautiful glimpses of wonderful new ways forward over
wonderful new horizons.
Day-3a: Still the unseasonally beautiful light showers and
breezes! Still the tight profile of participants and an audience
committed jointly to making the very most of the beautiful magic
of having each other to themselves for another full day.
The unaccompanied screenings again crank up into life in the
rooftop conference room. This time showcasing Phil Dadson's "Echo-Logo"
video of performance art on the Antarctic; Maria Blondeel's light-to-sound
video experiment; Jeremy Turner's avatar communiqué; The
Cologne Online Film Festival #2, entitled "Images vs Music";
Kireet Khurana's "2nz" showreel; Gruppo Sinesttetico's
graphic Performance-art video "Censored"; the special
selection of Turkish video artworks from NOMAD Project Channel;
Juliet Reynold's "A for Autism M for Mouse"; and, Eric
Fillion's funky collection of some of the video artworks that
he has recently performed live across the western hemisphere
as VJ Nokami.
Meanwhile, young Milindo Taid bravely opened up the session
of presentations in the auditorium, with deep insights and also
questions upon the variable relevance of various technologies
across varying circumstances. Which was well received with a
genial Q&A before he was done.
Surajit Sarkar also came on along the way, to better explain
his peculiar interactive carrom-board installation, exhibited
out in the lobby. And to also speak of his traveling carnivals
through village India, riding developmental funding and NGOs
to locally shoot and review amateur video of local affairs with
local communities. I'm afraid that I make, and made, no secret
of being personally very ambiguous, even suspicious, about such
'interventions' by the Non-Governed Sector into hearty communities
that may perhaps be just a tad technologically behind the more
privileged amongst us, but that's just me, and the baggage of
my personal history. Almost everyone else loved it all, almost
unconditionally.
And so too it seemed to be with the silver-tongued Ansuman,
who arose again by special request from somewhere to carry forward
some more of his performative discourse, hemming and hawing the
way most handsomely, and sometimes it seemed to me just very
adroitly abstrusely. Good stuff, but I think I need to properly
look this chap up and down some more, partly because I'd love
to have some of his real skills for myself. In fact, he's so
good that I'm not absolutely sure that I've not just hallucinated
a single presentation by the man into two, right here, right
now~:o)
Hardeep Singh Gill was obviously a lot more transparent, except
in that some good people might have thought it to be implicit
that we endorse anything and everything that we invite into anything
and everything that we do. In the event however, Hardeep most
excellently "represented" the burgeoning sector of
e-Creative education in this country, and anyone could have taken
any of many different things away from the table on that. In
fact, a couple of other presenters actually did visit Hardeep's
academy sometime later, to have themselves an up close look,
and to also run an informal workshop with the students. And,
almost everyone certainly seemed to enjoy the few public-awareness
works by his students that he shared with us all.
But then, things began to run a bit deeper.
Sheldon Brown's "The Scalable City v2.0" was set
up in the auditorium this time, through the lunch-break. And
then, when he came on to speak of it all in time, games were
no longer just games any more. Suddenly, we were looking at a
rainbow of possible purposes, intents, explorations, experiments,
developments and even pure intellectual enquiry, all radiating
in and out of an apparently simple sort of game, with otherwise
no clearly apparent direction, no clearly apparent purpose, no
clearly apparent intent. And, through it all did nevertheless
also run that naked exposition of how efficiently humankind can
now colonize our entire little planet, like an endlessly self-multiplying
and evermore voracious consumptive disease upon it.
So, a good thing that Galit Eilat followed in upon this, in
her trademark guerilla-black outfit, tucked into her trademark
slick black boots, the steely glint of her eyes set firmly upon
empowering, showcasing and otherwise involving herself and her
institution with some pretty incredible creative-activist and
other eCreative projects and works, in, and from, Israel, the
Middle East and the EU; some of it so straightforward, such as
the balloon as experimental musical instrument; but some of it
also so much more specifically located and complex, as with the
border-video connects and disconnects.
And then, what better than to have the digital-still-image
spoken for by John and Margie Labadie, after all of the hours
of discourse over so many other seemingly so much more complex
and deep matters, through all of which the actual printed still-images
of the exhibition that we had all put up together hung mute right
outside the auditorium? Ah! Good to remember the noble provenance
of the created still-image as having so emblematically hallmarked
almost all of humankind's evolution as a sentient species across
millennia. Obviously not the sort of stuff to just lay down and
die at the emergence of simple new medias, modifications, advancements
and expanded practice along the way. Instead, as borne out by
history, and even pre-history and John and Margie in this case,
it just keeps getting better!
Day-3b: The final set of evening performances, Ashim Ghosh
going first, with a bit of David Castelino, and a lot of India,
in all sorts of images and song. Smooth as silk, as always from
Ashim. A perfect fit for any of many possible situations. And
yet, less than what he had planned for, and prepared for, along
with a brilliant dancer, who eventually had to back out, for
extraneous reasons.
And then came the last act of CeC & CaC 2007, a performance
that I'd especially been looking forward to witnessing for quite
awhile, partly because I knew next to nothing of what to expect.
A work-in-progress, premiering with us after three months
of close work upon it, as well as several years of associated
work behind it, between the partners: Martin Gotfrit doing guitars
and live-audio-processing; Kenneth Newby doing violins and live-audio-processing;
Aleksandra Dulic doing animations and live-video-processing.
A lot of Max/Msp again, but a lot of it very subtle indeed, and
finally also with young Jitter, to yield deceptively simple soundscapes
and sound-phrases, so carefully structured and so meticulously
delivered, along with deceptively simple animations, also so
carefully structured, and so meticulously driven in sympathetic
concert with the rest. No wonder they call it 'Computational
Poetics'.
And again, this too was marked by that deep and open sharing
that has become such a treasure for me from every CeC & CaC,
and every part of every CeC & CaC.
This is what it is all about.
And what we are looking at from here is what more it can all
be about, for the benefit of all of us and everyone else too
into the future.
~x~
iii. FUTURE VIEW
What we seem to have to build upon going forward seems to
remain little more than just the continuing trust and endorsement
of a reasonably vast and continually growing circle of fascinating
eCreative Practitioners of all sorts, as friends and associates
on these sorts of works that we do.
And, that's profoundly firm bedrock in my book ~ even as one
looks directly into the indifferent eyes of the firing-squad
that the future sometimes looks to be in this regard.
What is of course critically necessary is that this has to
soon begin to grow beyond being about just me at the centre.
I am much too much of an odd sort, and weighed down too with
too many chips on my shoulders.
So, it's a good thing that we've made that small breakthrough
into interesting segments of the community of creative students
and young adults here in Delhi. And its another good thing too
that we are welcoming aboard a young lady-designer as a Trustee
of The AeA, who will hopefully be quite active in driving the
work we set out to do, as the beginnings of a sort of successor
generation.
Meanwhile, The AeA will be three years old by about the time
that we--hopefully--do CeC & CaC again next year. Which apparently
means, to some degree, that we might be taken a bit more seriously
in certain hallowed quarters, which might in turn lead to some
sorts of support, or concessions, towards consolidation.
What would I shoot for?
Basically just a good space in a good place:
[a] to allow development of some modest physical infrastructure
into the future, so as to be able to grow for itself a robust,
healthy, multifaceted and self-sustainable role in society.
[b] to properly store our beautiful growing archives of original
received CDs, DVDs and Books in some easily accessible manner,
so as to be of ongoing use to others, and also so as to thereby
drive further growth, by inspiring more eCreative Practitioners
from around the world to also archive works with us, and thereby
share them safely through us with others
[c] to set up a basic media-lab to be used internally, and
also be shared occasionally with external practitioners and projects,
on a case-by-case basis
[d] to set up a basic workshop (wood, metal, plastic, electronics,
etc.) to be used internally, and also be shared occasionally
with external practitioners and projects, on a case-by-case basis
[e] to allow for a few good folks to make simple good careers
from nurturing, evolving and growing what we do, towards good
general purpose into the future
And, as I'd made clear in my curator's report last time, we'd
be happy to personally share in investing upon such a thing even
with others, and this has been a target awhile.
So, let's see.
~x~
iv. THANKS
My Co-curators, Lawrence Casserley,
Curtis Bahn, Milindo Taid and Martin Gotfrit, for
having the courage to tie their outstanding long careers to an
uncertain new idea and
enterprise
Our other participants, for believing,
and also the institutions and individuals that actually
supported the participation of some of them
Lalsawmliani "Teteii"
Tochhawng and her colleagues in India International Centre, for
their continued faith and support
Poonam, my wife, for taking care
of so much that I had to let go
Bacchus, my son, for sort of
being there for me on this, especially when it counted
Tim Calonious for being rock
Suresh Pal and his associates
in IIC, for always being such a firm, reliable and amiable foundation
to build upon
Tina Rajan, for coming through
with critical support at a critical time
Rishab Parmar, Kamal Chawla and
their very special friends, for hosting the unaccompanied screenings
almost entirely on their own; for their explicit enthusiasm;
and for their implicit endorsement
Ram Bahadur and Deepak Thapa,
for backup all along the way
And those unnamed here.
~x~
Shankar Barua
Event-Director
CeC & CaC 2007
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Other Reactions
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>> thanks! it was a great
party
>> You gathered an amazing
group of people. I certainly felt a lot of inspiration and gained
a lot of knowledge
>> let's start planning
for next year
>> Let's get planning for
next year immediately! I am already thinking of more people I'd
like to invite from both ___ and ___
>> I truly hope we can
return for CeC&CaC #3 and that we can assist in any way possible
to create another wonderful meeting
>> Thank you very much
for your generous hospitality and most stimulating conference
>> You brought amazing
people together
>> Let us inflate this
balloon!
>> it was a pleasure to
be at the conference... and i hope some of the conversations
that started will continue
>> It's nice to have such
a personality at the centre of CeC & CaC
>> I wonder if we could
begin to conspire to set up an exchange in this direction?
>> It was an honour to
find ourselves within a community of such distinction within
the Indian cultural community
>> We arrived safely back
to _____ very stimulated from the wonderful gathering we were
a part of
>> This is worth exploring
from this end
>> We hope that the strong
connections we made through CeC$CaC will fruitfully turn into
new collaborations
>> I'm really glad I made
it in person - partly because I'm not sure what I would have
made of it if I'd only read your report...
>> On Monday evening I
had a good talk with ____, who was very enthusiastic about continuing
and growing the event
>> I would be interested
to receive any proceedings that came out of this event
>> The pleasure was all
ours
>> CeC & CaC 2007 was
a remarkable event.... made so, not the least, by your own constant
attention to keeping the participants awake and provoked. Thank
you for that
>> The work that u r doing
is really valuable and I am sure sooner or later the government
will come through and upstream these innovative technologies
into the system
>> I found myself reminded
constantly of my own place in a world with many radically varying
issues and priorities
>> I'm hoping that the
idea and action of the network can continue to evolve
>> Please don't stop
>> Looking forward to deepening
the community
>> I was delighted to be
part of this marvellous conference
>> Thank you for your vision,
and for your tenacity in realizing it
>> Thank you so very much
for your warm and generous hospilaity and for hosting a most
stimulating conclave/carnival/gathering
>> It was totally worth
my while. A wonderful experience. And it feels like only a beginning
>> Keep well and keep dreaming...
>> I hope our working relationship
and our friendship goes from strength to strength
>> the grounding in social
action that so many presentations represented was truly inspirational
>> That is the reason for
bringing a community together in the way that you have - so that
we can be peer mentors
>> Language fails at moments
like this...
>> The community of artists,
thinkers, scientists and philosophers you assembled had a delicious
number of synergies and I found myself, early on during the first
CaC event on Friday, feeling among a community of like-minds
and hearts. Not to imply a homogeneity to the cast of characters
assembled!
>> I am looking at many
new opportunities and collaborative relationships that I think
will grow out of the environment you created
>> I look forward to lots
more with you
>> It was a pleasure being
at the CeC and Cac although I felt like a misfit in a brilliant
and experimental group
>> The more I think of
it, the more I am convinced your "circus" is an important
node in the communication that nurtures the work we all pursue
>> I will try and have
art and design education spaces in India in the groove for the
next iteration of the CeC and CaC , whenever it unfolds
>> Anyway it was a wonderful
experience all round and I'm particularly glad to have found
a robust colleague and inspiring friend in your good self
>> I really enjoyed hanging
out with you (.. and I with you~:o)
~x~
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