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Q. Can I interview you via email?
Q. Can we get better photos of you for our article? The ones on your
homepage don't have enough resolution.
Q. How old are you, really?
Q. Can you tell me about the New Media Program at UT?
Q. I'm an undergraduate or high school student and I've been assigned
to email you some questions. Can I expect an answer?
Q. We'd like you to write something for our publication (or we'd
like to translate something you've written). What do we do?
Q. We'd like you to speak (or perform) at our university (or gallery,
museum, conference, symposium, festival, auditorium, or tv station).
What do we do?
Q. Where can we get your bio or CV?
Q. Where can I get information about Cyberconf, the International
Conference on Cyberspace?
A: Probably not. Interviewing folx by email was a good idea for about
the first ten minutes of the Net's existence. Now that people
have discovered how easy it is to fire off an email to their favorite
interviewee, the list of pending interviews has become impossibly long.
It isn't that I don't want to do them; there are just too many.
Some day I'll write a bot that answers interview questions plausibly
enough that they'll pass for a "real" interview, and believe me, that's
not as hard as it sounds.
A. Yes, if you have the patience and/or the finances. First check
the "downloadable photos" link; there are higher resolution images
there. If you haven't checked it recently, you'll find
that several new images have been added (35Mb Photoshop).
Failing that, ARTFORUM has a
portrait that is eminently suitable, but the rights to
reproduce it are quite expensive. As a next-to-last resort, contact
WIRED Magazine for information about their photos.
If none of this works for you, write schedule@actlab.utexas.edu.
A. None of your business.
A. For information about the New Media Program please phone
512-471-4071, or point your web browser to http://www.utexas.edu/coc/rtf.
A. Hopefully yes, but possibly not. I try my best.
See the first question in this list. You see, one of the unsolved
problems of Netizen life is that there's no good way to let people
know when you're overloaded with mail, and this may cause some people
who may already be shy to feel that they're being ignored or snubbed.
So please keep in mind that if you've sent me something by email
and you haven't received a reply, it quite probably means nothing
more than that my volume of mail was so high at the time that I had
no way to respond. Beyond my feeling guilty, there isn't a lot I can
do...until Better Bots are Written, or I figure out a way to clone
myself.
A. If you'd like to reprint or translate something already in
publication or you
are a commercial publisher requesting text over 250 words, please
contact the Sandra Dijkstra Agency at 619-755-3115 or email
dijkstraLA@aol.com. If you are requesting purely academic writing
for an academic publication contact me via email at sandy@actlab.utexas.edu.
A. Send email to schedule@actlab.utexas.edu. Please include the
following information: Type of venue, estimated number of attendees,
a range of possible dates, and contact person. Basically
this initiates a dialogue which can end in our coming to
an agreement, but it does not mean that we have done so; of course
many factors come into play. If you don't hear
from my tour manager within two weeks, flag me at sandy@sandystone.com.
Sometimes things get hairy during touring season.
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