derek holzer wrote:
Seems like the main difference in people's experiences meeting other users is whether or not they live in Europe. I don't think there's less PDers in the States, but they are much farther apart, and there's simply no interesting venues for new media art in the States [festivals and the like] so they never have a chance to meet each other.
This is what it seems to me. The only regular venue for stuff like this I know of in the whole US is ShareNYC, but I've never seen another PDer there, though I heard H.C.Steiner has been around. Of course NYC is a long shot if you live on the west coast, wheras from what I hear about Europe, you can live in London and be in Berlin 20EUR and an hour later. Hmmmm... anyone know of any jobs for a programmer with a specialty in realtime media in Europe ;) ?
Europe has higher population density, plus I think there really are more PDers in Europe. IEM is there. IRCAM is there.
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d.