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ASCI meetings
posted by Cynthia Pannucci (pannucci@asci.org), 19.11.2003, 10:48
»» Cynthia,
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»» Your response to my genral post to ASCI members surprisingly seems to
»» indicate that as the Director of ASCI you have no real interest or desire
»» in seeing ASCI organize regular gatherings of its members, and for it to
»» expand its reach and offerings in this way. You say you organized members
»» meetings for 10-years, but what happened, why are there no more meetings?
»» Are you really against seeing regular meetings because you do not have the
»» staff to do the work, or is it also because you are not capable or
»» personally willing to oversee their development?
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»» I am of the opinion that if regular meetings were held, more people would
»» become interested in joining ASCI, and it would become a much more vital,
»» dynamic organization, offering more than just a website, newsletter and
»» occasional annual events for the $40 annual membership fee. The likely
»» increase in membership income could help pay for staff.
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»» Yet you do say you would like to help facilitate meetings again. If that
»» is so, I suggest you put out the idea to all the members as I have done,
»» to see if others current members besides you might be interested in
»» working or volunteering to make this happen.
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»» I am put off by your suggestion that if I want to see ASCI member
»» gatherings happen, I start another mirror group that is completely and
»» totally independent of ASCI. Why recreate the wheel, and create
»» separation?
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»» Your concern that I be sure that ASCI is in no way legally responsible for
»» the content or the activities of such a splinter group seems to me to be
»» odd, paranoid, and counter productive. What are you afraid of?
Michael -
We discontinued ASCI Members Meetings in NYC when we saw that over the course of their last 2-years, only 15 people were attending. Intuitively I felt this might be because many artists had begun using special interest groups on the Internet for sharing information. Then, after 9-11, I saw an immediate decrease in evening biz emails... people were spending more of that time with family and friends. My observation is that this continues. Also, we have not gotten requests for ASCI member meetings in NYC from enough people [3-4] to warrant investigating this again. And finally, since properly viewing art-sci-tech artworks of today often requires that the site has more technology than just a slide projector or video monitors, finding this type of location is not easy in NYC. Our last effort was at Remote Lounge but the atmosphere is not conducive to any type of dialogue.
However, if you would like to put an info-blurb into the next ASCI ebulletin asking for those NYC ASCI members to respond *to you* if they are interested in attending local ASCI meetings, that would be great. Then, perhaps amongst these members, someone might have a loft or access to a university site appropriate for sharing artwork of this nature. Also, if what you are truly interested in is meeting and exchanging information, why does it have to be formalized under ASCI's name? If this would help with getting a site, let's take that step when/if it comes.
Please do me the favor of responding to my email address directly, as this is now an issue between you and I.
Cynthia
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 ASCI meetings
from Michael Strasmich on 15.11.2003 at 20:42  ASCI meetings
from Cynthia Pannucci on 18.11.2003 at 15:54 ASCI meetings
from Michael Strasmich on 18.11.2003 at 17:37 ASCI meetings
from Cynthia Pannucci on 19.11.2003 at 10:48
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