Slightly insane day as I drag myself out of bed to get to the press conference at 9 so I can get quotes from the Messa di Voce people for my story (should be in the Australian Tuesday). Then off the the Social Code symposium, to listen to Howard Rheingold talk about Smart Mobs and a very interesting guy talk about how language constitutes communities, relating it back to the open source movement. Did you know there was a different badge for Esperanto speakers in the Nazi concentration camps? Unfortunately, I can’t provide you with download links.
The afternoon was odd: the session was billed as a session on collective creativity but John Warnock and Marc Canter turned it into a session on business models a little bit.
Ran around and interviewed people. Found a new place to stay (don’t ask). Went to Electronic Theatre at the OK Centre, the display of all the cool animation that won mentions or prizes. Definitely buying the DVD. Tim Tom, the student piece that won the award, is pure brilliance. And I still love Gone Nutty, that little piece from the Ice Age DVD. Also the Japanese story of the guy who has a cherry tree growing out of his head after he eats a cherry pip. The Japanese piece Justice Runners is brilliant right till the end where it just gets… odd.
From there to the performance night, music and visuals upstairs, top floor of an artspace with installations all over, a fantastic conversation on the third floor with two new friends about protest, politics, and exhibitions I’d like to curate. Then back up to the fourth floor for belly dancing to indian-influenced techno before the dub kicked back in. Falling over due to too many late nights, I head home around 1.30. More on the actual installations later.