[PD] PD usability

[bbogart at ryerson.ca]

Hey again Marc,

Are you a new media artist? at What school is MAX/PD even an issue? (I get that your from Montreal based on your domain?)

I'm a Toronto based new media installation artist (visual, not so much audio):

www.ekran.org/ben

I hear good things about UQAM/Hexgram but my french is not so good.

B.

----- Original Message -----
From: Marc Lavallée <odradek at videotron.ca>
Date: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 5:37 pm
Subject: RE: [PD] PD usability

> Le mer 12/02/2003 à 16:59, mark a écrit :
> 
> > Sorry to be blunt about this but I did say I had my day job hat 
> on. :-)
> 
> I actually resigned from a well paid job in a university center 
> becauseI was unable to bring artists to use free software and be more
> responsible. I had to manage a bunch of projects, buy computers and
> softwares, and program "art". It was a stupid and impossible mandate,
> because artists (especially students) must do their own stuff, not
> always rely on programmers to hold the mouse for them. Of course, most
> artists were asking for Macs/Max/MSP/Jitter, leaving little money for
> anything else, including humain brain juice.
> 
> So for me, a "better" PD would have been cool. I won't accept such 
> a job
> unless artists agrees to change their tools and their attitude toward
> technology. But we need to help them a little bit, or I might 
> never work
> with them again.
> 
> --
> Marc
> 
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