Two questions: One of these I have a lot to say about the other I just raise because it is an extension of a conversation during day 2.

 

1.     1. ACVA – Australian Centre for Virtual Art. The question was raised of the relevance of the term centre (or even literal realization of a physical centre) in a networked environment. My question goes further and asks how do we deal with the notion of a defined regional (Australian) centre within a global network?

 

2.    2. How important is it to define what virtual art actually is? One answer posited to this is to simply leave this sort of thing to posterity. We won’t know what it is until we have done it and someone else defines it for us.

But (and this is a very big but), if we don’t develop the critical language to define our own space now we run the risk of falling into the ubiquitous  - “new media” as catch all - trap. This does not make it any more of any easy task to do (and I know many people feel that to define is to limit) but I do see it as an imperative to define the concept behind the acronym.

 

Just my two cents in reflection on day two…