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| Nik continues to voice despair over the accounting, sighing at various moments that as it moves into the realm of pure abstraction it becomes exponentially more difficult and tedious. | Nik continues to voice despair over the accounting, sighing at various moments that as it moves into the realm of pure abstraction it becomes exponentially more difficult and tedious. |
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| === 2006-02-08 00:30 === | === 2006-02-08 00:30 === |
| * what is he - he’s just organising workshops now | * what is he - he’s just organising workshops now |
| * Annemie understood from the email that it was meant to unite people | * Annemie understood from the email that it was meant to unite people |
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| Before that: Xmedk publication meeting. | |
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| [2006-02-22] | Before the above: Xmedk publication meeting. |
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| Maja said after this day ended that it was disappointing in most respects. Annemie reacted strongly and in a way that surprised and even shocked Lina and Maja when she saw the quantity of Xmedk texts that we had assembled for the publication, saying that it was “just stupid” if Okno didn’t have a similar quantity of text. She continued to voice concern over our texts and suggested we would have to cut a lot out. Maja thought the guild meeting was basically a repeat of the last one with little or no new ground covered; it just went round in circles even though she kept on trying to move it on. And to cap it all, she finished the Bent Object DVD on the evening of that day, what amounted to months of work, and gave it to Peter to watch. He apparently took it home and Foton watched it, but when Maja phoned him to ask what he thought of it, he merely replied that it was good to listen to it on good speakers - not a single word of thanks. One small victory was that she and Lina convinced Vali to speak at the Mediakunst meeting in Gent on Friday. Vali had been very busy and it was uncertain whether she would be in Brussels at the time of the meeting, but Maja and Lina went to visit her in the morning and convinced her that she should speak on FoAM’s behalf. | [2006-02-22] Maja said after this day ended that it was disappointing in most respects. Annemie reacted strongly and in a way that surprised and even shocked Lina and Maja when she saw the quantity of Xmedk texts that we had assembled for the publication, saying that it was “just stupid” if Okno didn’t have a similar quantity of text. She continued to voice concern over our texts and suggested we would have to cut a lot out. Maja thought the guild meeting was basically a repeat of the last one with little or no new ground covered; it just went round in circles even though she kept on trying to move it on. And to cap it all, she finished the Bent Object DVD on the evening of that day, what amounted to months of work, and gave it to Peter to watch. He apparently took it home and Foton watched it, but when Maja phoned him to ask what he thought of it, he merely replied that it was good to listen to it on good speakers - not a single word of thanks. One small victory was that she and Lina convinced Vali to speak at the Mediakunst meeting in Gent on Friday. Vali had been very busy and it was uncertain whether she would be in Brussels at the time of the meeting, but Maja and Lina went to visit her in the morning and convinced her that she should speak on FoAM’s behalf. |
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| === 2006-02-22 20:53 === | === 2006-02-22 20:53 === |
| Phone call with Pix again last night; again he mentions that there’s been no de-briefing meeting regarding Lyta. This is because Nik and Maja consider it to be a low priority. The weird circumstances brought about by everyone talking behind each other’s backs; there is the sense, Pix describes, that it all has some “greater meaning,” so we go along with it and constantly have to think if we can say certain things to certain people. Not quite backstabbing, but injurious nonetheless. People need to say what they think openly for a change. Communication is always based on individual alliances rather than the group as a whole, and therefore any collaboration becomes fragmented between competing individuals’ interests. | Phone call with Pix again last night; again he mentions that there’s been no de-briefing meeting regarding Lyta. This is because Nik and Maja consider it to be a low priority. The weird circumstances brought about by everyone talking behind each other’s backs; there is the sense, Pix describes, that it all has some “greater meaning,” so we go along with it and constantly have to think if we can say certain things to certain people. Not quite backstabbing, but injurious nonetheless. People need to say what they think openly for a change. Communication is always based on individual alliances rather than the group as a whole, and therefore any collaboration becomes fragmented between competing individuals’ interests. |
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| === 2006-03-13 Lyta report [draft] === | === 2006-03-13 Lyta report [draft] === |
