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Sunday, July 12, 2009

Visual Art 911 Media Arts Center Moving/Clouding

Posted by Jen Graves on Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 3:03 PM

"It's becoming more cloud-like," Joe Gray said of the venerable resource center 911 Media Arts. He was speaking in a discussion with about 25 people about incubating arts and technology in Seattle, at the Frayed Wire conference in Youngstown Cultural Arts Center. (More on Frayed Wire, which was pretty great, later.)

Tina Aufiero, former manager of education programs at 911, confirmed yesterday that 911 will be moving at the end of August into part of the University District space occupied by the nonprofit Jack Straw Productions, while its classes will be held in satellite locations.

In other words, 911 will no longer have its own dedicated space. Will that weaken it, as has happened at CoCA? How could it not? What will happen to groups that met at 911, like the Seattle chapter of dorkbot? Shelly Farnham of dorkbot-sea says the loose collective is considering renting on its own.

More as I learn it.

^{NASA picture of cool mammatus clouds over Mexico from here}

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Yes, this is distressing. As someone who used to teach editing there, in the 90s, I have a lot of affection for the place. It's where a lot of media professionals got their start -- Lynn Shelton for one.

Maybe this is good though-- maybe it's not all about having a big facility/studio/gallery space. The facility seems to have become a big anchor for them.

Posted by Steven Bradford

on July 12, 2009 at 4:41 PM

Jen, did you see the mams over New York a fee weeks ago? It happened at sunset which made them extra amazing:

http://cloudfanatic.blogspot.com/2009/06…

Posted by StillNon on July 12, 2009 at 8:56 PM

People 911 is not losing its computer lab class room and before you write us off read this post I did last April about what is going on. Really there is no story here unless you are into redemption The line is below.
http://vroomjournal.com/articles/js.php

Posted by Steven Vroom

on July 14, 2009 at 12:25 AM

Cloud Computing (I know, I know, somewhat of a pop-technology buzz word, but... ):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_compu…

Non-Linear is where it's at these days, both in mathematics and elsewhere.

Cheers!

Posted by Joseph Patrick Gray on July 14, 2009 at 12:37 PM