::fibreculture:: stats?

[Linda Wallace]

hi molly and everyone,


On 19/8/03 2:05 PM, "hankwitz" <m.hankwitz at qut.edu.au> wrote:
> 
> what is pretty interesting for fibreculture is how the US, Europe and Asia
> Pacific
> are now all pretty equal in users. That's a 40% increase in this
> region since 1998!

this is incredible, and got me thinking about the only region that will grow
is asia. made me remember what a vibrant incredible city beijing is, and
what might come outta there.

I've been there twice now and attach the url of the exhibition probe in
october 1999. normally only having to deal with trade delegations and
visiting government ministers, the public affairs embassy staff were run off
their feet as the embassy was being mobbed by youngsters. the media file of
the exhibition (links from 'exhibition' on the main menu) is worth checking
out -- PROBE hit a faultline and went like crazy.  the australian new media
artworks in the show looked completely amazing, haunting and beautiful. now
when I think about it I think it has resonance with groundbreaking shows
like the armory show etc -- of course, different scale but similar jolt, all
about timing: art as event, art as wildfire

http://www.machinehunger.com.au/probe/

maap has picked up on this energy recently, with a big international show in
beijing.  but]]]] no way anyone can use the embassy like that now though,
1999 was a very different place.

I also had another read of these notes I made after the first trip in 1998.
The snapshot of the internet in china in 1998 is quite prescient:

http://www.machinehunger.com.au/china_trip98/internet.html


it made me think that it is time perhaps for fibreculture to consider
developing regional links, working with artists who work with the internet
in particular, perhaps an internet-artist-in-residence program going
bothways -- australian artists going to the region and, perhaps more
interestingly,  regional artists coming to australia........any institution
-- here or in the region -- academic, arts organisation or company whatever,
research institute... -- capable of something like that?

linda





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> cheers,
> molly
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> At 03:01 PM 8/19/2003 +1200, Sean Cubitt wrote:
>> http://www.nua.ie/surveys/how_many_online/
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>> 
>> World Total     605.60 million
>> Africa  6.31 million
>> Asia/Pacific    187.24 million
>> Europe  190.91 million
>> Middle East     5.12 million
>> Canada & USA    182.67 million
>> Latin America   33.35 million
>> 
>> a bit slow off the mark but NUA ("founded in 1996. Nua Internet Surveys
>> was acquired in June 2001 by the Scope Communications Group, Ireland's
>> leading IT Media Company") are pretty reliable
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>> On a broader basis, well worth checking out
>> http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info/
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>> extract from the summary:  The world produces between 1 and 2 exabytes of
>> unique information per year, which is roughly 250 megabytes for every man,
>> woman, and child on earth. An exabyte is a billion gigabytes, or 1018
>> bytes. Printed documents of all kinds comprise only .03% of the total.
>> Magnetic storage is by far the largest medium for storing information and
>> is the most rapidly growing, with shipped hard drive capacity doubling
>> every year. Magnetic storage is rapidly becoming the universal medium for
>> information storage.
>> 
>> s
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