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= Almost Perfect Conference call 2 = * [[Sept 22]] [[2006]] 1800 CEST 900 MST 1700 BST == Present == * SK [[User:SusanKennard | Susan Kennard]] - Banff - Dept Director * LM [[User:LindsayMacdonald | Lindsay Macdonald]] - Banff - Almost Perfect co-ordinator * CS [[User:CindySchatkoski| Cindy Schatkoski]] - Banff - Porgramme manager * JP [[User:JulianPriest | JulianPriest]] - Informal - Peer Advisor * JR [[User:JoReid | Jo Reid]] - HP Mobile - Technology Partner * EJ [[User:EleanorJones| Elly Jones]] - HP/Computer Science Bristol University == Appologies == * CM [[User:ChantalDumas | Chantal Dumas]] - Peer Advisor * PM [[User:Paula Levine | Paula Levine]] - Peer Advisor - University of SF == Abreviations == * LM locative media * BNMI Banff New Media Institute * SF San Francisco * HP Hewlett Pacard * MS Media Scape * AP Almots Perfect == Introductions == * JR From HP Bristol resopnsible for the MS platform we will be using HP Bristol will send different people at different times. Jo Reid - the first week Richard Hull (HP Bristol) Patrick Goddi (HP Labs Palo Alto) Elly Jones will be there the whole time as HP contact * EJ Intern at HP doing Computer Science degree - spedning a year at HP bristol as a year in industry * LM project co-ordinator and contact point for AP * SK Director of BNMI Introduces: Chantal Dumas cannot be present travelling in Germany. she is a peer advisor audio artist no experience with mediascape Paula Levine professor at San Francisco Uni - has used mediascape directly 2 projects # on the wall separating palestine and Israel # Using the fault lines in SF as a mapping tool - axes julian can you give some background on your work? * JP consume.net free wireless community networking went in 3 directions development - capacity building for wireless networking in the developing world policy - spectrum politics - open spectrum arts - media art practice - recently collaborative pieces on creative commons and spectrum locative interest. mapping elements in wireless network node databases - wirelesslondon.info media embedded in community networks - hivenetworks.net etc. political structure of devices - spectrum use ip ownership etc. * SK introduces Almost Perfect in the past residencies have been direct individual projects people would come for their own projects - mature artists random peer group of whoever was there Almost perfect is first co-production lab want to develop a critical mass around the residency practice and discourse / craft and discourse partnership with HP as tech partner BNMI want to use this to learm about this new way of working the call for participation did not tap into the mobile media community most of them are very technically proficient build their own systems AP wants to get beyond that to the next wave of LM practitioners first time locative users level the playing field approach one platform for all projects * SK 10 projects in a month alot of support for applicants team of 4 people - peer advisors + tech support etc. want to do talks and analsyis * SK How it will run runs from November 5th - December 2nd rough structure *week 1 ** artist presentations ** peer advisor presentations ** bnmi presentations ** ?track lines? ** exploring a wilderness environment ** orientation and training * week 2 ** visits from concordia university ** kim ? ** barbara crow ** canada's top mobile community evaluators ** user experience work ** department of communications * week 3 **in depth production *week 4 **open studio - presentation of work also lots of fun stuff - trips etc. maybe people like to work in different ways? walks and barbecues ! most of the time will be spent in production students 70% on their research 30% talks organised contact time etc. next stage 1 on 1 calls with artists distribute bio's to the peer advisors finalise the assessment make final selection next week - plane tickets one on one calls with artists Peer Advisors - to develop reading list build agenda Project plan finalised by Oct 20th BNMI hasn't done a collective residency before Questions? * What are the social connections * how are people working with LM * students get a first experience with LM *: then they can choose if they like it as medium - take it forward in practice - or if they don't * we need suggestions for best practice for collaborative workshops *JP maybe I can help with that - done lots of collaborative stuff workshops peer developed network infrastructure collaborative artworks free software etc.. * SK need some kind of shared workspace any suggestions? * JP how about a wiki? * SK which one? * JP mediawiki is quite good - the one wikipedia uses. * SK problems with our servers - just one outside the firewall. what do you need? * JP LAMP server (LinuxApacheMysqlPhp) I can install on my server if you like. * SK ok we would like to explore the place that is banff lots of firsts for banff with AP first group residency first teaching residency first platform specific residency Any other q's? * JP one for JR is the platform like director at all? * JR yes a bit - you can have a look at a version of it at http://createscape.org.uk and contact me for other versions etc. allows you to do the basics of attaching media to places. * SK Thanks for the call - more next week ---- call ends

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