Just talking with Helen about the issue of Firewalls in civic spaces - its proved a real issue for the project and has lead to us doing all the interviews onto tape and uploading them by hand. These institutional sites restrict access via the firewall which means that users can't upload video and in some circumstances download video, rendering the project invisible yet frustrating.
This could also been seen in terms of controlling public space, firewalls restrict access to publci spaces and data, in the name of security or perhaps under the slightly hysteric notion of safety.
More work needs to be done in preparing locations for recording, easy to say in retrospect but there has been a real compression of time, the deadline being March 31st.
A knock on of this and processing is a certain dislocation between interviewee/audience and the work. We upload the files, then we have to track down the interviewee and let them know the URL for their portrait. Not ideal.
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