Fast and nice reply from Andreas, but unfortunately negative as far as
funding goes. So keep searching, Amy and Ge!
alex
attached mail follows:
dear alex,
thanks for your message. i know about toplap through the presentation
at read_me and i like the concept - it would be great to have you get
together in berlin in february. unfortunately, your request comes at
a moment when we are struggling with an overdrawn budget, so that it
is not possible that we commit to additional costs. it is very late
now to raise additional funds, our application to the us-embassy has
long been submitted, so nothing comes to mind right now.
if you manage to arrange something at C-Base, we'd be happy to take
it up as a partner event; it would be good to know about this in the
course of this week as we need to block the space in the booklet.
i'm sorry to have to be short and negative, but the situation leave
little room for manouevre at the moment.
greetings,
-a
>Dear Andreas,
>
>Hope all is well with you.
>
>I'm writing to tell you briefly about TOPLAP and our plans for
>transmediale, and to ask your advice.
>
>We at TOPLAP (Transnational Organisation for Promotion of Live Algorithm
>Programming) have charged ourselves with the exploration and promotion
>of live algorithms - that is algorithms that can be edited while they
>are executing. We project our screens during performances so that the
>audience may see the sourcecode of the software that is generating the
>music and/or video, as it is written and manipulated.
>
>More information about past performances, papers, our manifesto etc can
>be found at http://toplap.org/
>
>We're very pleased to have our proposal for (club) transmediale 2005
>accepted, and are piecing together a plan. Jan Rohlf has asked us to
>conduct a half day workshop, group performance and participate in a
>talk/panel session. We've also been in contact with c-base (who you
>introduced Saul and I to last year), hopefully we'll be able to organise
>with them a further evening of performances by TOPLAP members.
>
>Now on to the problems. There are ten TOPLAP members who would like to
>participate in these proceedings, and it would be great for us to have
>as many people there as possible, many of us haven't yet met each other
>face to face. Here we are:
>
>* Fredik Olofsson (berlin)
>* Kristjan Varnik (berlin)
>* Julian Rohrhuber (de)
>* Alberto de Campo (de)
>* Nick Collins (uk)
>* Dave Griffiths (uk)
>* Ade Ward (uk)
>* Alex McLean (uk)
>* Amy Alexander (us)
>* Ge Wang (us)
>
>Of course club transmediale can help with travel for some of us, but
>only 3 or 4. Also you can see that four of us are based in Germany, two
>will be in Berlin. So the big cost is with bringing Amy Alexander and
>Ge Wang over. We estimate that return flights from the US to Berlin
>will be around 408 euros per person.
>
>We have raised 700 euros in donations from TOPLAP performance and
>presentation fees, but think we need another 400-500 euros on top of
>that to get everyone to transmediale.
>
>So I have two things to ask - firstly if we were to hold an event at
>c-base one evening during transmediale, could that be affiliated to
>transmediale as with the dorkbot last year?
>
>Secondly, do you have ideas for how we might find the missing money for
>travel expenses? Perhaps there are still other areas in which we can
>get involved with a bit more funding. Any suggestions or help would be
>much appreciated.
>
>Take care and best wishes,
>
>alex
Received on Sun Dec 05 2004 - 20:29:38 GMT