since no one responded I'll assume we don't care and respond to Joel to say
no.
looking forward to seeing many of you soon...
N
--On Wednesday, February 2, 2005 9:05 am +0000 Nick Collins
<nc272_at_cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi all,
> Joel Chadabe contacted me yesterday about adding TOPLAP events to
> his worldwide laptop festival. I said we were doing transmediale and
> sonar in the coming months, below. Originally he was going to contact
> people last September, hence my slight reluctance to commit to do
> anything for him at this late stage. transmediale falls outside the
> official start date of 10 feb for his festival.
> Might be worth some promotion (though surely won't get us any more
> audience for this weekend!) but I'm a bit suspicious because there are no
> funds and we do all the work; EMF just claim our event as part of their
> festival.
> What do people think, want to stay independent?
>
> cheers
> N
>
>
> Hi Nick,
>
> All is not lost. TOPLAP is so interesting that I think we should include
> it as a curtain-raiser, so to speak, or at least we can assign it that
> role so that it's a part of the documentation. If you'd like to do that,
> please do send pictures, program copy, notes, whatever you think would
> make clear what you've done to a public reading about this into the
> future.
>
> If you can send some information now, I'll put it in our calendar ...
> valuable because we can then include it in an email going out before the
> weekend. For the info we need, have a look at ...
>
> http://www.arts-electric.org/aboutus/listing.html
>
> and send the info directly to me.
>
> Best,
>
> Joel
>
>
>
>> Hi Joel,
>> In potentially awful timing for your 10 Feb start date,
>> TOPLAP are playing transmediale in Berlin this coming weekend. A few
>> TOPLAP artists are also booked for SONAR in Barcelona later this
>> year. Because we've been successful in getting involved in
>> established festivals its unlikely we'll hold our own during the
>> course of your worldwide festival.
>> So thanks for getting back to me but sorry we're not very
>> compatible with your own event.
>> Cheers,
>> Nick
>
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