| Chatroom ConferencesOn the subject of installation in the new media ecology (see Tate Gallery post) I found the FurtherField studio interesting. The FurtherField studio website describes itself as:
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:<br /><blockquote>Because of the chat element,there is more scope to sidestep questions and/or engage in a lot of niceties –there is the constant desire to tell people if you are laughing at their remarks (lol) or being cheeky <img src='http://www.universecreation101.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> . Funnily enough,it was so fast it made lists seem like long laboured philosophical tomes and it was in parts so<br />chatty that I longed for the rigors of list life.</p></blockquote><p>Sven Birkerts has written and spoken about this in his books and numerous interviews.<br /><blockquote>If I could be convinced that the Net and its users had a genuine purchase on depth,on the pursuit of things which are best pursued in stillness,in dread,and by way of patiently articulated language,then I would open wide my heart. I just don’t see it.</p></blockquote><p>[John Perry Barlow,Sven Birkerts,Kevin Kelly,Mark Slouka,){kind=icon}