June 06  where i think i am.

From: cfront-admin@cfront.org [mailto:cfront-admin@cfront.org]On Behalf Of Luka Princic
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 3:21 PM
To: cfront@cfront.org
Subject: [CFront] where i think i am.

(my first day)
before lunch,
after meeting
before reading the other mails,
comes this:

members of local and bulgarian art community are not plovdiv public. it
seems we are trying to reach and communicate with plovdiv public. we need
to contact what could be also described as "real life". but we have a bit
of the problem with the question: what is the content of this communcation.
which seems it is solved during todays meeting. partialy at least. dimos:
we need to find or construct the 'right' mechanisms to reach, contact and
finaly communicate with "real-life" plovdiv public.

after the talk with invited jurnalist and some youngsters we found out the
idea of "the most beautifull house of plovdiv concourse" would definitely
fail, as locals have too less trust. this knowledge gives us the idea, we
need to know much more about local community in order to reach them and
find means to bring them in contact with us and our "art".

what comes to my mind, is a form of masquerading or putting a kind of a
bait to to bring public in. from "bait" point of view things are decided:
to organise barbecue, make a radio and newspaper invitation. the event
should happen on saturday. eva, maria and igor should coordinate that.

but what was interesting to me from a meeting with youngsters was general
social situation on and level of "internet and technical (cyber?)
awareness". how much are people online, for what do people use internet,
what is the age structure of internet users, how many isps do they have in
plovdiv (cca 10!!)... al of these questions and data suddenly made me
imagine cfront group as a masqueraded social institution offering
possibilty of talk about tech-age.

anyway, jane is working on radio 10 minutes broadcast, dimos on photocopy
notebook, eva et al on barbecue, and there's also some other projects under
way (work with children, inteviews at financial school, and those which i
don't remeber now) [don't take this as a general report].

i should also develop a java chatroom alias java web -> IRC gateway to have
some chat with plovdiv people online, and later webpage constructiong...

time for lunch.

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