Hey again Marc,

Are you a new media artist? at What school is MAX/PD even an issue? (I get that your from Montreal based on your domain?)

I'm a Toronto based new media installation artist (visual, not so much audio):

www.ekran.org/ben

I hear good things about UQAM/Hexgram but my french is not so good.

B.

----- Original Message ----- From: Marc Lavallée odradek@videotron.ca Date: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 5:37 pm Subject: RE: [PD] PD usability

Le mer 12/02/2003 à 16:59, mark a écrit :

...

Sorry to be blunt about this but I did say I had my day job hat

on. :-)

I actually resigned from a well paid job in a university center becauseI was unable to bring artists to use free software and be more responsible. I had to manage a bunch of projects, buy computers and softwares, and program "art". It was a stupid and impossible mandate, because artists (especially students) must do their own stuff, not always rely on programmers to hold the mouse for them. Of course, most artists were asking for Macs/Max/MSP/Jitter, leaving little money for anything else, including humain brain juice.

So for me, a "better" PD would have been cool. I won't accept such a job unless artists agrees to change their tools and their attitude toward technology. But we need to help them a little bit, or I might never work with them again.

-- Marc

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