Media Trip 0446

CLONMEL -- On the day Doc Searls Blog turns five years old, our Year Three multimedia students journey to Dublin to see some artefacts of communication along with meeting some of the key people in Irish new media cultue. We will blog about the day after the events are done and dusted, even though I could ask students to moblog the high points. We won't because we're filming and touring galleries and I think the phoneblog gets in the way of important analogue events.

• We plan to stop at the Straffan Steam Museum to see a snippet of cable used to connect Europe to North America, steam engines that powered Ireland through the Industrial Revolution and a cross-section of rail cars that existed on Irish Rail long before the Luas trams.
• Karlin Lillington, the technoculture journalist and blogger, talks about "Working to publicise Irish Technology" during a session in the round at Temple Bar Gallery and Studios.
• Students will explore two exhibitions in the Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, then participate in a media critique session while returning home to Clonmel. In "As if in a dream, as dreamt by another", Robert Jacques has produced several vertical floors of textile hangings derived from photos of immigrants to Ireland. Vaari Claffey has assembled 23 works in "No one else can make me feel the colours that you bring". They are as diverse as the media used to produce them. 

Doc Searls -- "The blog turns five today. The first posts were Dave's notes to me, giving instructions that are no less useful to any rookie blogger today."
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