File spoon-archives/surrealist.archive/surrealist_1996/96-06-28.151, message 46


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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