[sat] ISEA 2011

[Lisa Parks]

Ditto! Thanks so much for all your hard work in putting things together, 
Max, Elana, and Lasse. If something happens in Spain and you want to 
collaborate feel free to get in touch.

all the best,
Lisa

--On Wednesday, May 4, 2011 5:10 PM -0400 Trevor Paglen 
<tpaglen at berkeley.edu> wrote:

> Hi Max
> No worries at all. To tell you the truth, I expected this to happen. Those
> kinds of conferences I think are more geared for faculty people who have
> their own research money to spend on going to conferences and things.
>
> No worries at all. And hope all is well.
>
> Trevor
>
>
> Trevor Paglen
> (510) 520-2208
> www.paglen.com
>  
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Max Neupert [mailto:max.neupert at uni-weimar.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 5:05 PM
> To: Lisa Parks; trevor at paglen.com; Mursat ML
> Cc: Elena Marcevska; Lasse Scherffig
> Subject: ISEA 2011
>
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> Dear mur.sat, Lisa and Trevor.
>
> We are terribly sorry.
> The conditions under with the ISEA submission is now can't be fulfilled by
> us. After all the work we have put into the organization we are very
> disappointed having to tell you that we don't see any other option than
> canceling the panel for the ISEA in Istanbul. We tried to get sponsors
> like the Goethe Institute Istanbul, the IFA, the American Consulate in
> Istanbul and similar Institutions, but were out of luck. Mostly this was
> because of the short time between proposal and actual event, the budgets
> for 2011 are already allocated at those institutions.
> The ISEA came forward with their idea about who pays for the speakers at a
> very late stage, we would have appreciated this piece of crucial
> information at the submission stage, then we could have reacted a bit
> more timely and we would have had more sponsoring opportunities.
>
> However this being said, we would love if the effort we all have made
> wouldn't simply evaporate but would lead to something else. We have a
> promising offer by Pedro Soler of the Laboral Centro del Arte in Gijon,
> Spain. They host a satellite workshop (10th to 14th of May) with mostly
> spanish language presenters (+ mur.sat):
> http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org/en/actividades/orbitando-satelites-1
> We could join forces and try to publish our essays in a publication
> together with them.
> We'd like to have your feedback about this idea and any comments or
> conditions you might have.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Max, Elena & Lasse
>
>
>
> - --
>
> Max Neupert
> Faculty member
> Faculty of Media
> Bauhaus-Universität
> Marienstr. 5, Room 208
> 99423 Weimar, Germany
> Tel. +49 3643-583872
> Fax. +49 3643-583806
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Lisa Parks
Professor & Chair
Dept. of Film and Media Studies
University of California-Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
phone: 805.893.5549
fax: 805.893.8630
email: parks at filmandmedia.ucsb.edu
http://www.filmandmedia.ucsb.edu/