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I’ve just set us a MADigitalArts social network in ning. It is more private than Facebook and may be a useful way for our group to communicate and post viseos, images, email each other etc. This past week Sean Clark created a Camberwell MA Digital Arts group in Facebook which will also be useful.

I’ve been thinking more about the Digital Arts Forum event and the videos that were posted, I’m struck by the number of works that used various effects to distort or filter the video image- I’m wondering what leads to that impulse? I have two intital thoughts and not sure which is more applicable- if it is the ability of these software apps to filter and distort and the seduction of that ability or if it is about the desire to conceal or hide. That desire may relate to how public the forum was- but I didn’t feel that vulnerable from this distance- perhaps if I was a Camberwell I might have felt differently.

I haven’t been as reflective as I’d like to be over the past few weeks. I get busy, I research but don’t spend enough time reflecting. I’m amazed at how varied my colleagues are in their research- it’s great to actually read their weblogs and follow their thinking.