Other doing what we are doing?

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Friday workshop

Sorry for doing it so late. Here it goes,

Session Plan:
6+6+4 presentations, each presenter gets 45 minutes with question/crit session included.
9-1 PM - Ross Mc Leod (10-1), (+Liam TBC)
2-6 PM - Chris Ryan (2-4),
6-10 PM - Michael Trudgeon, Peter Burrows

Who presents in which session?
The bar idea is unworkable as Friday evenings are no good for the bar. We could end up in our space, or in the context room, or in 8.4.16 (which is dark and the projection may be working).

We have cancelled Friday drinks at 87 because of this event.

FAI topics
Please verify/correct and reply with final names of topics. I would like to circulate this on Wednesday.
1. The sacred and the profane, Mario
2. Rear Vision Apparition, Bryan
3. Durian Durian – Culinary Contradictions, Dana
4. ??, Mark
5. Triggered Reflection, Tony
6. Racial Intolerance, Charles
7. Reformist Box, Damian
8. Spelunking, Stacey
9. ??, Sid
10. Promo Manifesto, Linton
11. Black Market Power, Vendy
12. Six Dollar Limit, Toyah
13. The mind attack, Kaliyann
14. Darker Ness, Paul
15. ??, Kat
16. Cover thou Waste, Bart

I need volunteers - to organise the event space, to make a poster of the event, to record the event on video/pix, to make handouts for the panellist, to make a document after the session AND

Two of you have to be student panellists for each session - for three sessions thats six of you.

Pretending to be god

We do not have conformity because we need it or that it was thrust upon us, we have conformity because we need it to taste the ecstasy of prediction, to be that one step closer to being god. For if we cannot conquer chaos we might as well destroy it through order.

A one day workshop

Talking to Bryan today I asked if I could suggest a one day workshop to the CA group. A workshop in which you present your project and the audience (carefully chosen - so that they can make effective contributions to your topics - and individually briefed by me and personally invited). The date for this would be Friday 3rd September. I have found a nice room for this - RMIT Bldg 96, Lygon street. It would run for the whole day. And each of you gets half an hour. 15 mins prez and 15 mins discussion. And it will be exhausting. And this is something that helps your projects immesurably. I know, and have seen it often in the past.

(We are doing one such event for Ban, masters student working on 'bicycling in melbourne', week after next. With Green Peace, Bicycle Victoria, Melb city council etc...)

So please discuss. Should we do it? Should it be for all of you? Or should it be optional for those who want it?

Like I said - its not meant to be simple. But I am there for support.

Handout Feedback

I've just finished reading most of the handouts and there are a few things that I’ve noticed which aren’t really dealt with or even mentioned. The foremost is that there seems to be a lot of whining about western values, western ideals, western drivers for commodisation. But there seems to be not mention of eastern values, eastern ideals, and eastern drivers to whatever it is they drive for. See what I mean, I don’t even know what the desired end goal for eastern drivers is. Considering we are living in Australia and in the great context in out immediate neighbors are oriental in origin wouldn’t it be prudent to perhaps at least touch on some basics regarding this. Second a lot of the text in the handouts takes the assumption that our morals and ethics are the same as theirs or that we have ethics and morals at all! What happens if I don’t have any? Or mine differ so much that I might as well not have any? It seems that the writers aren’t really interested in these things and more in the lime light of publishing something that’s most likely very well researched and written but to me something close to a pseudo-intelligencia tripe. I’m sure as much as we’d like to think Australia is the same as the United States or Europe, in truth we’re not because our history and culture are completely different. It just comes across to me as interesting information but hardly applicable to our situation.

Objectives

We talked five objectives:
1. Damian/ Vendy: Anarchist
2. Paul: Different
3. Tony: Method
4. Stacey: oops cant remember
5. Mark: On the topic

And this is where you could put what you remember of you comments. Make it sound nice and sure. Not tentative.

Recounting

You could put here what you said in the session about what you were doing. What you had done. As your show and tell.