hi all,
... a brief introduction:
I recently began the Media Studies program in the University at
Buffalo as a grad student. I'm coming from a long history of
community-based work in the Toronto arts scene - primarily through
InterAccess (http:www.interaccess.org), an artist-run centre focused
on electronic and communications media. More recently I founded Ping
Media Network (http://www.ping.ca) as an online space for artistic &
social investigation. I've created online interactive projects using
server scripting and databases (Open Source world) and run workshops
to encourage other artists to use these tools. Currently I'm working
on installation and network projects which involve surveillance and
memory.
I'm quite excited by this conference as it focuses on issues central
to my own. I'd like to echo Wolfgang's comment about topica.com (the
signup really irritated me) and hope that we can work together to
express our ideals in both form and content.
thx
Tom Leonhardt