Virtual Residency Day Forty-Seven, What I'm Learning
The goal of the Virtual Residency has been three-fold:
1. To address the way jet fuel contributes to global warming
2. To find a solution to working internationally that does not exacerbate my illness of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
3. To experiment with the limits and opportunities of a Virtual work site
In the remaining three days of this residency, that will be my focus: to assess what has been accomplished and learned.
The first thing I learned wasn't on my list of what I hoped to address. It was about irritating tech glitches that can arise and how much time they can take to solve: acoustic, for example. Blogger.com glitches with archiving; transferring WAV files; language barriers for international participation.
Re: #1: As far as jet fuel actual use, an EPA pdf on non-road emissions from 1990, estimated that jet fuel constituted 1% of all emissions but at that time was projected to grow by 226% by 2010. I sent in a request to compare emissions from modes of transport on a typical 500 mile round trip. Given the priorities of this current administration, I will be curious to see if I receive a reply.
Re: # 2: The second thing I learned, was that even with all the support of working from home, the project exhausted me. The daily commitments over almost two months of work and the 16 hour concerts, the adrenalin of amassing everything myself: were not sustainable. I will have to design the final Virtual Concert differently and get more support for future work of this kind.
Re: #3: The third thing I learned is that the culture to use this sort of "space" amongst people over twenty, is extremely limited and needs to be developed for the immense potential it represents. The culture of those under twenty is not educated to explore sophisticated conceptual territory (at least, that I could research so far). The latter would be a major educational failure.
1. To address the way jet fuel contributes to global warming
2. To find a solution to working internationally that does not exacerbate my illness of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
3. To experiment with the limits and opportunities of a Virtual work site
In the remaining three days of this residency, that will be my focus: to assess what has been accomplished and learned.
The first thing I learned wasn't on my list of what I hoped to address. It was about irritating tech glitches that can arise and how much time they can take to solve: acoustic, for example. Blogger.com glitches with archiving; transferring WAV files; language barriers for international participation.
Re: #1: As far as jet fuel actual use, an EPA pdf on non-road emissions from 1990, estimated that jet fuel constituted 1% of all emissions but at that time was projected to grow by 226% by 2010. I sent in a request to compare emissions from modes of transport on a typical 500 mile round trip. Given the priorities of this current administration, I will be curious to see if I receive a reply.
Re: # 2: The second thing I learned, was that even with all the support of working from home, the project exhausted me. The daily commitments over almost two months of work and the 16 hour concerts, the adrenalin of amassing everything myself: were not sustainable. I will have to design the final Virtual Concert differently and get more support for future work of this kind.
Re: #3: The third thing I learned is that the culture to use this sort of "space" amongst people over twenty, is extremely limited and needs to be developed for the immense potential it represents. The culture of those under twenty is not educated to explore sophisticated conceptual territory (at least, that I could research so far). The latter would be a major educational failure.
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