Re: UKNM: tasty, tasty

[Chris Locke]

At 09:44 AM 10/22/98 -0700, you wrote:

>*For those lucky few who don't know what the ICA is: Pleasant arts

>centre on The Mall in London, great bookshop, sometimes hosts

>interesting events, one of the last bastions of the early 90s

>'Interactive Art' movement, you will probably meet someone there who

>has just got a grant from Kirklees Council to string a load of Light

>Dependent Resistors up to the Internet as wry commentary on the

>'heavily-mediated context that post-industrial workers [for

>post-industrial, read call centre] inhabit in the PoMo era'.


Kirkless council is actually pretty good at putting money into good

projects.  One of the things they've started is the TEST digital research

centre at the Kirklees Media Centre - http://www.test.org.uk 

TEST is actively seeking industry partners for combined projects that aim

to both train the local population for new media work and support small

companies who otherwise couldn't afford to do experimental research.  And

they're going to have a phenomenal amount of kit to do it with.  (And

hopefully actually do stuff with it, so it doesn't sit idle like the ICA

Suns.)


Of course, the fact that TEST is run by my twin brother has *nothing* at

all to do with this public service announcement . . . . ;)