[PD-ot] NIME05 Report

[Marc Lavallée]

Le 2 Juin 2005 18:01, Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit :
> (I cc'ed the list since I think this is of general interest)
>
> On Jun 2, 2005, at 4:24 PM, Sylvain wrote:
> ...
> I totally agree with you, there should be a forum for such work, and
> ICMC is good for that.  My objection is that ICMC is very closed to the
> world outside.  Try to get your hands on the proceedings for example.

I think there's a need for larger and/or more accessible forums. It seems 
enough people outside of the academic circle are now interested by computer 
art, even by issues like interfacing and new intruments. I was able to 
attempt a few events at NIME 03 in Montréal, but "illegally" because it was 
much too expensive. I felt bad but I couldn't resist, because I really 
wanted to see Max Mathews and a few other conferencees (Hans might remember 
me being there). I was lucky enough to see a performance of Michel Waisvisz 
at the Mutek festival, because it was almost at the same time than NIME, 
but the (trendy) Mutek crowd was not interested by "the hands" (maybe it 
would be different today).

I remember that the 1991 ICMC in Montréal was very accessible compared to 
NIME 03, but I can't find the proceedings online, which is even more 
important than being there.... I don't know about the other NIME events, 
but the NIME 03 proceedings are all available online:
http://www.music.mcgill.ca/musictech/nime/onlineproceedings/TOC.html

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Marc