Re: [-empyre-] A few opening remarks.

[Sylvie Parent <sylvie_parent@sympatico.ca>]

Melinda Rackham a écrit :

> , not many artists work in this field now. I can't think of any
> > artist owning a PDA here in Quebec/Canada... Such devices as PDAs have
> > not quite infiltrated mass culture here, are still mainly used by
> > business people. Now, the situation seems to be very different from one
> > country to another.
>
> there was a big uptake of palms/visors in australia.. about 1/2 the
> net.artists or people working in the arts i know have one, the pc operating
> system based ones are more the business application .. tho i must admit i
> need to update and i'm thinking the image quality screen resolution and
> writting recognition seem much more sophisticated on the pc handhelds..

thank you for this information Melinda
it is very interesting to see how the phenomenon is expanding faster in some
places than others
let me know about artists' projects using these devices in Australia, if you
are aware of them

best,

Sylvie