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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>a slow start wins the race...right? or other ideas
that justify the machination to crank!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>we love hearing from jerome and ricardo (love it,
so good to know) and look forward to more news from anyone/everyone, but it need
not be an edict. right? where ever one feels comfortable on the radar.
(insert yourself into radar diagram, here, as you would draw it, or maybe its
represented by numbers, a calculation?)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>meanwhile, toward "new thing," we recently had a
cocktail meeting developing the new board. It was so phenomenally odd and
therefore quite brilliant. but at one point the mission statement was put on the
table. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>now i will take responsibility for this (although
wolf and i put pen to paper and artist christoph draeger-our super new energy
and partner, who is actually the sunlight to the seed-okay, he is going to hate
the way I poeticized that, also helped to shape this) statement that I have
already been using for grants.but.at the "approximation of a board meeting" a
certain bon vivant's girlfriend suggested that our interest in social activism
was trendy.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>now this is fair when I hear it from one of you.
but while enjoying heidrun's incredible pasta sauce (heidrun, a brilliant
filmmaker/artist, who is also in the core group to open the new space) I had to
pause a serious pause...really.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>so here it is. let's fine tune our "storefront"
motive and then casually move on to more interesting fodder.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>editable mission:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>THE THING is a (501c3) non-profit organization
committed to the development of new media culture, fine arts and social
activism. During its first ten years, it became widely recognized as one of the
founding and leading online centers for new media culture, hosting artists'
projects in its multimedia lab, discussion forums with notable events and
symposia, as well as publishing cultural criticism. THE THING's new project
space expands its mission towards the production and presentation of new work in
a real physical environment, redefining the relationship of new media culture,
fine arts and social activism and continuing to distinguish itself as an
essential platform for outsider expression. Through its diverse programs,
testing new curatorial methods of presentation including actions and
initiatives, THE THING continues to stimulate contemporary discourse
specifically between art, media and socio-political culture.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>we, as in you as the new team, welcome even
the most finite of particular ideas.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>best from the most perfect spring day in
Williamsburg,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>arfus</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>postscript: i know my tone is odd but it is really
the way i speak, except that you can not see the ridculous comedic gestures that
i make throughout. tak. </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>