Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 02:27:32 +0200 (MET DST) From: p_petiot-AT-euronet.nl (PETIOT_Pierre) Subject: Re: exhibition -- money, funding Sorry, as I read all old posts as new ones since my little PC upgrade, I comment may be a bit late. >thanks lynn, YES. Thanks Lynn. >finding myself a bit baffled, i was pondering a similar post. trying to >work the numbers i couldn't come up with $5000 of _necessary_ cost if _each_ >of us working on the HTML had to buy a new scanner, CD-ROM drive and sound >card just for this effort. Add a few decent colour printers on top of it. >the project (a world surrealist intersection with the WWW) needs to be done. >let's start from that premise. things peripheral to that, catalogs etc., >should not be allowed to deter the main project. > >potential main project costs are very fluid and _nearly all avoidable_ to >some degree. the only area of necessary concern is, as i've said, getting >acceptable digital images. the question of funding originally came from the >realization that some would not be able to provide digital images, and that >this would result in some cost to the individual artist and/or the >exhibition. we need to deal with this, but the solution can be as simple, >and inexpensive, as mailing a good 8x10 photo of the work to someone with a >scanner. I can scan 8x10 CENTIMETERS photos (or even more but not wider than 10 cm 800dpi 24bits colour because that's what my scanner does. But I cannot handle them because I only have 8 megs of memory. But I shall have 16 megs in july and I shall see what happens. Besides, my scanning hours are limited, since I have to work hard to pay this incredibly sophisticated hardware (cost is about US $ 400) >[the on-screen image quality will not improve by paying big bucks to scan >anything larger, and taking a photo of artwork is not so specialized a skill >that one _must_ employ a pro. as a photographer i'm willing to give anyone >who needs it a crash course on the subject.] That's also my feeling. Even with my new (minimum) video board >so the money question can be simply stated, in my opinion, as: how many >contributors need assistance in providing digital images, and what is the >least amount of money needed to best provide that assistance. Agreed. We have to get good in these things, that's the best and freest way out and above all beyond. >i fear we're getting stuck in a funding depression where there should be >only creative joy over the ease with which a project of this size can now be >done. Let's create first and face technology each one according to his abilities and skills. Pierre PETIOT See also... http://www.euronet.nl/users/p_petiot/poiein/poiein.html http://www.euronet.nl/users/p_petiot/index.html
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