Re: [-empyre-] tech: - was galleries & establishments

["Melinda Rackham" <melinda@unsw.edu.au>]

 marek:
> But I like your list - will be sealing it into an "emergency"
> envelope is all goes wrong!
christiane:
> Very often nobody notices that something
> is wrong with a piece because they simply don't know what it's supposed to
> do and look like. I wanted to do an "info session" for the guards, so they
> would know how things were supposed to work and could call IT when
something
valerie:
> I think I can use the music analogy here again. Because you are
> making the Web site really fill the space, like a live music show,
> you need the same technical infrastructure that bands do when they
> tour. This is why bands travel with their own equipment and technicians


yes i like the sealed envelope approach..
i have come to realise that instructions which are obvious to me sometimes
make no sense to others..:) these days i try and have visual represenations,
eg screenshots detailing how things should look  when it is all working..
often festivals ask for vidoe s of websites so they can see how they work
without having to do the tech stuff or point and click themselves which i
think is pretty interresting...

i useally like to spend time with the tech  staf before a show if i am
physically there but one of the problems living in australia is that its
actually difficult , tedious and expensive to travel all the time.. like 90%
of the time my work goes places woithout me.. i think sylvie is going to
talk about accessability geography in the second half of the month..

perhaps museum budgets could factor net artists having to travel with thier
work as many installation artsits do?

m