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BIO
Brett Stalbaum, Lecturer, LSOE
Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts Major (ICAM)
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
Department of Visual Arts
9500 GILMAN DR. # 0084
La Jolla CA 92093-0084
C5 research theorist (www.c5corp.com) 1997-2007
Graduate (MFA) of the CADRE Digital Media Laboratory at San Jose State
University.
Professional affiliations:
Electronic Disturbance Theater
C5
paintersflat.net
http://www.paintersflat.net/
Latest: The Silver Island Bunker Trail, possibly the first time humans have walked like a game bot. The trail is open to the public for outdoor recreation and enjoyment.
http://silverisland.paintersflat.net
Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts Major (ICAM)
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
Department of Visual Arts
9500 GILMAN DR. # 0084
La Jolla CA 92093-0084
C5 research theorist (www.c5corp.com) 1997-2007
Graduate (MFA) of the CADRE Digital Media Laboratory at San Jose State
University.
Professional affiliations:
Electronic Disturbance Theater
C5
paintersflat.net
http://www.paintersflat.net/
Latest: The Silver Island Bunker Trail, possibly the first time humans have walked like a game bot. The trail is open to the public for outdoor recreation and enjoyment.
http://silverisland.paintersflat.net
[Fwd: *CRCA Position Reopened*]
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: *CRCA Position Reopened*
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 14:07:59 -0700
From: Carol Hobson
Dear All,
CRCA has reopened our position for a Technical Director/Systems
Administrator until Oct. 1. We are looking for strong candidates who
have already worked in an arts setting whether that is academia,
non-profit or private sector. Please help us by forwarding this to
qualified people that you know, and whom you'd want to know are part
of our computing arts community within UC. Applications MUST be made
online. The overview description and url to the UCSD Job bulletin
follows.
thanks,
carol
========================
DESCRIPTION:
Serve as Technical Director and Systems Administrator for CRCA, an
arts research unit. In this capacity implement and manage network and
upgrades, support new and ongoing research activities, and
participate in planning and implementation of new facilities and
infrastructures for the New Media Arts within Cal-(IT)2. Provide
complex programming and research support to arts researchers
including the identification and implementation of new technologies
in support of the ongoing development of CRCA and researcher
websites. Perform systems administration including network
operations, software and hardware research, recommendation, purchase
and installation, and system analysis. Provide facilities management
of advanced equipment and lab setup and maintenance. Provide systems
administrative and technical support to CRCA staff, students and
researchers. Some variable hours and evening or weekend
responsibilities in line with special events, projects or related
efforts. Strongly prefer candidates with experience in new media arts
and working with artists and arts projects.
http://joblink.ucsd.edu/bulletin/job.html?cat=information&job_id3614
--
Carol J. Hobson
New Media Arts Manager
CRCA/UCSD, Cal(IT)2, UC DARNet
chobson@ucsd.edu
(858) 534-4383, fax: (858) 534-7944
http://crca.ucsd.edu/~chobson
--
Brett Stalbaum
Lecturer, psoe
Coordinator, ICAM
Department of Visual Arts, mail code 0084
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gillman
La Jolla CA 92093
Subject: *CRCA Position Reopened*
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 14:07:59 -0700
From: Carol Hobson
Dear All,
CRCA has reopened our position for a Technical Director/Systems
Administrator until Oct. 1. We are looking for strong candidates who
have already worked in an arts setting whether that is academia,
non-profit or private sector. Please help us by forwarding this to
qualified people that you know, and whom you'd want to know are part
of our computing arts community within UC. Applications MUST be made
online. The overview description and url to the UCSD Job bulletin
follows.
thanks,
carol
========================
DESCRIPTION:
Serve as Technical Director and Systems Administrator for CRCA, an
arts research unit. In this capacity implement and manage network and
upgrades, support new and ongoing research activities, and
participate in planning and implementation of new facilities and
infrastructures for the New Media Arts within Cal-(IT)2. Provide
complex programming and research support to arts researchers
including the identification and implementation of new technologies
in support of the ongoing development of CRCA and researcher
websites. Perform systems administration including network
operations, software and hardware research, recommendation, purchase
and installation, and system analysis. Provide facilities management
of advanced equipment and lab setup and maintenance. Provide systems
administrative and technical support to CRCA staff, students and
researchers. Some variable hours and evening or weekend
responsibilities in line with special events, projects or related
efforts. Strongly prefer candidates with experience in new media arts
and working with artists and arts projects.
http://joblink.ucsd.edu/bulletin/job.html?cat=information&job_id3614
--
Carol J. Hobson
New Media Arts Manager
CRCA/UCSD, Cal(IT)2, UC DARNet
chobson@ucsd.edu
(858) 534-4383, fax: (858) 534-7944
http://crca.ucsd.edu/~chobson
--
Brett Stalbaum
Lecturer, psoe
Coordinator, ICAM
Department of Visual Arts, mail code 0084
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gillman
La Jolla CA 92093
[Fwd: Fwd: Scale Journal 8/9 Call For Participation + Guest Editor Joel Swanson + http://scale.ucsd.edu/]
>+ please forward +
>
>This email is a call for submissions from theorists and practitioners in
>the following fields: Art, Architecture, Communication, Comparative
>Philosophy, Computation, Computer Audio, Critical Theory, Design,
>Literature, Media (New and Old), Music, Performance, and Software
>Design.
>
>SCALE (http://scale.ucsd.edu) would like to encourage you to submit
>"work" for its upcoming online-only August & September issue. SCALE is a
>non-profit journal that explores new modes of production and
>dissemination based on open-source and networked communities.
>
>The theme for the August/September SCALE is APOCALYPSE. As we look
>forward to the coming election in November, it seems prudent to reinvest
>ourselves in exploring the possibilities of our own self-destruction.
>Often rooted in religious and science-fiction genres, apocalyptic themes
>have proven fruitful as a framework from which to question our
>collective hopes, fears, and concerns, on a local and universal scale.
>In your submissions, feel free to explore and exploit your personal
>imaginations of APOCALYPSE as a loose starting point for your
>submission. Please keep in mind that SCALE likes to abide by terms
>obliquely, and as such encourages all types of submissions, from dirty
>sketches and musings, to polished images and essays.
>
>Initially formulated within the graduate programs of the Visual Arts at
>the University of California, San Diego, SCALE was created by Jon
>Phillips (http://www.rejon.org) and Patrick W. Deegan
>(http://www.pwdeegan.org) as a strategy of response to a growing
>interest in developing Open Source communities across the globe. SCALE
>is a monthly publication living in both PDF print and online PDF/WIKI
>format.
>
>+++++++++++++
>
>SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:
>
>+ Additional instructions for submission can be found at
>http://scale.ucsd.edu under ’AuRead the File and Style Guidelines.’Au
>
>+ Text or Image submissions must be in PDF format NOT exceeding 10MB and
>8.5’Au x 11’Auin dimension. Because this month is ONLINE-ONLY, color
>submissions are encouraged. Images must be 300dpi.
>
>+ Multimedia submissions will be hyperlinked for download from a page
>within in the compiled PDF publication. If submitting a file for
>linkage, it is recommended you also submit some type of graphic image in
>consideration of how your piece will be represented in the layout. By
>doing so, we can include the URL to your file within the image provided
>by you. If other circumstances are desired, please let us know.
>
>+ For Multimedia submissions, please upload the actual file and NOT the
>URL to where it is located on behalf of your own site. WE WILL BE
>HOSTING THESE FILES ON THE SCALE SERVER. However, mentions of your
>respective websites are allowed.
>
>+ All work submitted will be initially accredited to you unless
>suggested otherwise, however, in its online format the work will be
>deemed Open Content (as defined by http://www.creativecommons.org) and
>could possibly be subject to artistic reinterpretation (at a later date)
>on behalf of SCALE’Aos community of readers.
>
>+++++++++++++
>
>DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS:
>
>+ The submission process begins now and ends effectively on Monday,
>September 20, 2004.
>
>+ In the week to follow, we will be compiling and publishing the
>online-only August/September issue.
>
>+ Submissions, progress, and status can be immediately checked online.
>
>+++++++++++++
>
>If you have any questions, please contact any of us directly. Thank you.
>We look forward to your submissions . . .
>
>The September & August SCALE team:
>
>Joel Swanson | Guest Editor, August & September Issue SCALE. |
>jeswanson@ucsd.edu | http://hippocrit.com
>
>Patrick Deegan | Co-founder of SCALE | pdeegan@ucsd.edu |
>http://www.pwdeegan.org
>
>Jon Phillips | Co-founder of SCALE | jon@rejon.org |
>http://www.rejon.org
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>scale-announce mailing list
>scale-announce@cabbage.ucsd.edu
>http://cabbage.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/scale-announce
>
>This email is a call for submissions from theorists and practitioners in
>the following fields: Art, Architecture, Communication, Comparative
>Philosophy, Computation, Computer Audio, Critical Theory, Design,
>Literature, Media (New and Old), Music, Performance, and Software
>Design.
>
>SCALE (http://scale.ucsd.edu) would like to encourage you to submit
>"work" for its upcoming online-only August & September issue. SCALE is a
>non-profit journal that explores new modes of production and
>dissemination based on open-source and networked communities.
>
>The theme for the August/September SCALE is APOCALYPSE. As we look
>forward to the coming election in November, it seems prudent to reinvest
>ourselves in exploring the possibilities of our own self-destruction.
>Often rooted in religious and science-fiction genres, apocalyptic themes
>have proven fruitful as a framework from which to question our
>collective hopes, fears, and concerns, on a local and universal scale.
>In your submissions, feel free to explore and exploit your personal
>imaginations of APOCALYPSE as a loose starting point for your
>submission. Please keep in mind that SCALE likes to abide by terms
>obliquely, and as such encourages all types of submissions, from dirty
>sketches and musings, to polished images and essays.
>
>Initially formulated within the graduate programs of the Visual Arts at
>the University of California, San Diego, SCALE was created by Jon
>Phillips (http://www.rejon.org) and Patrick W. Deegan
>(http://www.pwdeegan.org) as a strategy of response to a growing
>interest in developing Open Source communities across the globe. SCALE
>is a monthly publication living in both PDF print and online PDF/WIKI
>format.
>
>+++++++++++++
>
>SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:
>
>+ Additional instructions for submission can be found at
>http://scale.ucsd.edu under ’AuRead the File and Style Guidelines.’Au
>
>+ Text or Image submissions must be in PDF format NOT exceeding 10MB and
>8.5’Au x 11’Auin dimension. Because this month is ONLINE-ONLY, color
>submissions are encouraged. Images must be 300dpi.
>
>+ Multimedia submissions will be hyperlinked for download from a page
>within in the compiled PDF publication. If submitting a file for
>linkage, it is recommended you also submit some type of graphic image in
>consideration of how your piece will be represented in the layout. By
>doing so, we can include the URL to your file within the image provided
>by you. If other circumstances are desired, please let us know.
>
>+ For Multimedia submissions, please upload the actual file and NOT the
>URL to where it is located on behalf of your own site. WE WILL BE
>HOSTING THESE FILES ON THE SCALE SERVER. However, mentions of your
>respective websites are allowed.
>
>+ All work submitted will be initially accredited to you unless
>suggested otherwise, however, in its online format the work will be
>deemed Open Content (as defined by http://www.creativecommons.org) and
>could possibly be subject to artistic reinterpretation (at a later date)
>on behalf of SCALE’Aos community of readers.
>
>+++++++++++++
>
>DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS:
>
>+ The submission process begins now and ends effectively on Monday,
>September 20, 2004.
>
>+ In the week to follow, we will be compiling and publishing the
>online-only August/September issue.
>
>+ Submissions, progress, and status can be immediately checked online.
>
>+++++++++++++
>
>If you have any questions, please contact any of us directly. Thank you.
>We look forward to your submissions . . .
>
>The September & August SCALE team:
>
>Joel Swanson | Guest Editor, August & September Issue SCALE. |
>jeswanson@ucsd.edu | http://hippocrit.com
>
>Patrick Deegan | Co-founder of SCALE | pdeegan@ucsd.edu |
>http://www.pwdeegan.org
>
>Jon Phillips | Co-founder of SCALE | jon@rejon.org |
>http://www.rejon.org
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>scale-announce mailing list
>scale-announce@cabbage.ucsd.edu
>http://cabbage.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/scale-announce
Re: 'Southern strategy' numbers
Speaking here from the terminator state, those 54 are clearly Kerry's.
The terminator rose to the governorship not because California is a
republican state, but because of the incompetence of the previous
democratic governor, whose main base of political power was the
prison-industrial complex. Only tribal democrats were sorry to see Gray
Davis replaced by someone, who by certain metrics, is actually to the
left Davis. For full disclosure, I voted against the recall of Davis but
for Cruz Bustamante in case the recall passed.
Jim Andrews wrote:
> i was curious to see how a 'southern strategy' could work just in terms of
> voting clout.
>
> here's a map of how the 2000 usa election panned out:
> http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/U.S.-presidential-election,-2000 ;
> the map has the numbers on it that indicate the 'weight' of the states (by
> population).
>
> the total of the weights is 537. so a majority is 269. what would it take to
> get a majority?
>
> tallying up the southern states (Texas, Okla, Kansas, Nebr, Missouri,
> Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee,
> Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, South Carolina, North Carolina) we get 209.
>
> throw in the terminator's California (which has the greatest 'weight' at 54)
> and pretty much just one other state, just about any other state, and that's
> a majority.
>
> ja
>
>
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> +
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>
--
Brett Stalbaum
Lecturer, psoe
Coordinator, ICAM
Department of Visual Arts, mail code 0084
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gillman
La Jolla CA 92093
The terminator rose to the governorship not because California is a
republican state, but because of the incompetence of the previous
democratic governor, whose main base of political power was the
prison-industrial complex. Only tribal democrats were sorry to see Gray
Davis replaced by someone, who by certain metrics, is actually to the
left Davis. For full disclosure, I voted against the recall of Davis but
for Cruz Bustamante in case the recall passed.
Jim Andrews wrote:
> i was curious to see how a 'southern strategy' could work just in terms of
> voting clout.
>
> here's a map of how the 2000 usa election panned out:
> http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/U.S.-presidential-election,-2000 ;
> the map has the numbers on it that indicate the 'weight' of the states (by
> population).
>
> the total of the weights is 537. so a majority is 269. what would it take to
> get a majority?
>
> tallying up the southern states (Texas, Okla, Kansas, Nebr, Missouri,
> Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee,
> Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, South Carolina, North Carolina) we get 209.
>
> throw in the terminator's California (which has the greatest 'weight' at 54)
> and pretty much just one other state, just about any other state, and that's
> a majority.
>
> ja
>
>
> +
> -> post: list@rhizome.org
> -> questions: info@rhizome.org
> -> subscribe/unsubscribe: http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz
> -> give: http://rhizome.org/support
> -> visit: on Fridays the Rhizome.org web site is open to non-members
> +
> Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms set out in the
> Membership Agreement available online at http://rhizome.org/info/29.php
>
--
Brett Stalbaum
Lecturer, psoe
Coordinator, ICAM
Department of Visual Arts, mail code 0084
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gillman
La Jolla CA 92093
Bibliographic note: Big data in ylem (v24n6, v24n8) and scale (v1i6-7)
Bibliographic notes for "Big Data", published in YLEM, Artists Using
Science & Technology, Volume 24 Number 8, July-August 2004.
This issue of the YLEM journal features the texts by artists working
with large data sets in their practice, all of which were requested,
organized, and edited by Brett Stalbaum, originally for a special issue
of YLEM.
In Volume 24, Number 8 are:
Jevbratt, Lisa, "The Prospect of the Sublime in Data Visualizations"
Polli, Andrea, "Atmospherics/Weather Works: Artistic Sonification of
Meteorological Data"
My editorial notes for ylem (v24n6, v24n8) and scale (v1i6-7) also
include coverage of:
McPhee, Christina, Sense of Place and Sonic Topologies: Towards a
Telemimetic Sublime in the Data Landscape", which appeared in YLEM
journal, Volume 24 Number 6, May-June 2004.
McPhee's article was to have been part of the same "Big Data" issue, but
"Big Data" was split across two issues of YLEM due to the large size of
the articles. The articles from YLEM journal, Volume 24 Number 8,
July-August 2004, (Stalbaum, ed., Jevbratt, Polli) and YLEM Journal
Volume 24 Volume 24 Number 6, May-June 2004, (McPhee) are published
contiguously (as was originally intended) in the online journal Scale,
Volume 01, Issue 6+7,(Mike Podolak ed.), and can be viewed as an Adobe
Acrobat portable document format file at the following URL:
http://scale.ucsd.edu/volumes/2004/07/contents/scale-01-06_07-final.pdf
The online republication of the contiguous essays in Scale was approved
by YLEM managing editor Loren Means, where the material was first
published in print.
See also:
http://rhizome.org/thread.rhiz?thread222&text'171#27171
--
Brett Stalbaum
Lecturer, psoe
Coordinator, ICAM
Department of Visual Arts, mail code 0084
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gillman
La Jolla CA 92093
Science & Technology, Volume 24 Number 8, July-August 2004.
This issue of the YLEM journal features the texts by artists working
with large data sets in their practice, all of which were requested,
organized, and edited by Brett Stalbaum, originally for a special issue
of YLEM.
In Volume 24, Number 8 are:
Jevbratt, Lisa, "The Prospect of the Sublime in Data Visualizations"
Polli, Andrea, "Atmospherics/Weather Works: Artistic Sonification of
Meteorological Data"
My editorial notes for ylem (v24n6, v24n8) and scale (v1i6-7) also
include coverage of:
McPhee, Christina, Sense of Place and Sonic Topologies: Towards a
Telemimetic Sublime in the Data Landscape", which appeared in YLEM
journal, Volume 24 Number 6, May-June 2004.
McPhee's article was to have been part of the same "Big Data" issue, but
"Big Data" was split across two issues of YLEM due to the large size of
the articles. The articles from YLEM journal, Volume 24 Number 8,
July-August 2004, (Stalbaum, ed., Jevbratt, Polli) and YLEM Journal
Volume 24 Volume 24 Number 6, May-June 2004, (McPhee) are published
contiguously (as was originally intended) in the online journal Scale,
Volume 01, Issue 6+7,(Mike Podolak ed.), and can be viewed as an Adobe
Acrobat portable document format file at the following URL:
http://scale.ucsd.edu/volumes/2004/07/contents/scale-01-06_07-final.pdf
The online republication of the contiguous essays in Scale was approved
by YLEM managing editor Loren Means, where the material was first
published in print.
See also:
http://rhizome.org/thread.rhiz?thread222&text'171#27171
--
Brett Stalbaum
Lecturer, psoe
Coordinator, ICAM
Department of Visual Arts, mail code 0084
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gillman
La Jolla CA 92093
Re: A Different MFA Question
Tremendous benefit. I went into CADRE thinking that I was going to make
digital video, web media, director movies, and otherwise design for the
screen. I came out with an sound exposure and much experience in working
with information technology (note: not just multimedia) at all levels
and in all of its forms, as a medium. Graduate school not only gave me a
better grounding in the history of practice in the art discipline area,
but provided a number of different ways of thinking about how art might
be inflected by various the various cultural theories, scientific and
technical developments, politics, and media disciplines that are the
significant mediators of culture. And as Christina said, the time you
have to focus on your work and the relationships you develop are really
wonderful. (My practice is 100% collaborative - and I am still working
closely with many people I went to grad school with, and in fact, the
chairperson of my MFA committee, Joel Slayton.)
Also of importance to me was the opportunity I had to learn how to teach
well, and the gum-strengthening that you get from the flossing you take
when asked to defend your work before a large (often hostile) faculty
drawn from every sub-discipline of the arts. I have never had tougher,
more difficult and often more irrational audiences (mostly on the part
of older faculty who felt threatened by a medium that they made no
attempt to understand and viewed as an interloper), during public
presentations. Finally, grad school encourages artists to transform
their indulgence in particular media into broader research agendas; this
is a present and growing role for artists. The future is less a matter
of masturbating with pre-existing media and trying to attract critics to
"the product", (I nice metaphor for all of the problems with modernism,
imho), and more a matter creating models and new tech which facilitate
the production of further knowledge, understanding, and quite
importantly, the promotion of greater agency and autonomy (or protecting
what is left), as networks and media blur the bounds between human and
machine. And digressing a little, grad school was a lot of fun... days
of being relatively poor - falling into debt - but happy anyway.
Christina McPhee wrote:
> Dear jason,
>
> Wow simple and great question.
>
> Yes it was a fantastic thing. To be to grow up with your work. To have time
> to sink into it endlessly. To connect with friends about it. To be
> inspired as well as to rage against the professors. To self define. To
> still live by the expansive energy of it including the difficulty of it. It
> was a core piece of the formation of a life. Go for it if you go for it for
> itself. It's not a resume thing. Go only to a program that really calls to
> you. That makes sense to you. Its the only way its worth it.
> Thanks for asking ( something rarely is asked about! :-)
>
> Christina
>
> On 8/26/04 7:25 AM, "Jason Van Anden" <jason@smileproject.com> wrote:
>
>
>>I do not have an MFA.
>>
>>For those of you that have one:
>>How have you personally benefited from achieving it?
>> ... having it?
>>
>>Jason Van Anden
>>www.smileproject.com
>>+
>>-> post: list@rhizome.org
>>-> questions: info@rhizome.org
>>-> subscribe/unsubscribe: http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz
>>-> give: http://rhizome.org/support
>>-> visit: on Fridays the Rhizome.org web site is open to non-members
>>+
>>Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms set out in the
>>Membership Agreement available online at http://rhizome.org/info/29.php
>
>
--
Brett Stalbaum
Lecturer, psoe
Coordinator, ICAM
Department of Visual Arts, mail code 0084
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gillman
La Jolla CA 92093
digital video, web media, director movies, and otherwise design for the
screen. I came out with an sound exposure and much experience in working
with information technology (note: not just multimedia) at all levels
and in all of its forms, as a medium. Graduate school not only gave me a
better grounding in the history of practice in the art discipline area,
but provided a number of different ways of thinking about how art might
be inflected by various the various cultural theories, scientific and
technical developments, politics, and media disciplines that are the
significant mediators of culture. And as Christina said, the time you
have to focus on your work and the relationships you develop are really
wonderful. (My practice is 100% collaborative - and I am still working
closely with many people I went to grad school with, and in fact, the
chairperson of my MFA committee, Joel Slayton.)
Also of importance to me was the opportunity I had to learn how to teach
well, and the gum-strengthening that you get from the flossing you take
when asked to defend your work before a large (often hostile) faculty
drawn from every sub-discipline of the arts. I have never had tougher,
more difficult and often more irrational audiences (mostly on the part
of older faculty who felt threatened by a medium that they made no
attempt to understand and viewed as an interloper), during public
presentations. Finally, grad school encourages artists to transform
their indulgence in particular media into broader research agendas; this
is a present and growing role for artists. The future is less a matter
of masturbating with pre-existing media and trying to attract critics to
"the product", (I nice metaphor for all of the problems with modernism,
imho), and more a matter creating models and new tech which facilitate
the production of further knowledge, understanding, and quite
importantly, the promotion of greater agency and autonomy (or protecting
what is left), as networks and media blur the bounds between human and
machine. And digressing a little, grad school was a lot of fun... days
of being relatively poor - falling into debt - but happy anyway.
Christina McPhee wrote:
> Dear jason,
>
> Wow simple and great question.
>
> Yes it was a fantastic thing. To be to grow up with your work. To have time
> to sink into it endlessly. To connect with friends about it. To be
> inspired as well as to rage against the professors. To self define. To
> still live by the expansive energy of it including the difficulty of it. It
> was a core piece of the formation of a life. Go for it if you go for it for
> itself. It's not a resume thing. Go only to a program that really calls to
> you. That makes sense to you. Its the only way its worth it.
> Thanks for asking ( something rarely is asked about! :-)
>
> Christina
>
> On 8/26/04 7:25 AM, "Jason Van Anden" <jason@smileproject.com> wrote:
>
>
>>I do not have an MFA.
>>
>>For those of you that have one:
>>How have you personally benefited from achieving it?
>> ... having it?
>>
>>Jason Van Anden
>>www.smileproject.com
>>+
>>-> post: list@rhizome.org
>>-> questions: info@rhizome.org
>>-> subscribe/unsubscribe: http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz
>>-> give: http://rhizome.org/support
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>>+
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Brett Stalbaum
Lecturer, psoe
Coordinator, ICAM
Department of Visual Arts, mail code 0084
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gillman
La Jolla CA 92093