The notion of the symbiotic work – when we reach the point of everyone is an artist.  Web memes as a rise-o-matic medium.  What are the implications of everyone as an artist?  Suggestion for further research.

On the digital divide – even Matt at Columbia College has started to poll his students on access to computers and software.  Finds that many do have access to the hardware but not the proper software.  Brings up the issue of when everyone has the access to the software on their own computer and software leading to no one working in the lab and the students losing out on the social experience of creation and collaboration.

Inter-media and symbiosis operate on a continuum.  Also happens within creative thought.  Brown suggests to Faber of a symbiosis between her art and the science.

The digital divide – we’re already assuming the kids are in college; however, there are people that don’t have the proper access to everything during K-12.  And it’s even worse in third-world countries.  Griffin responds that in many third world countries, they’re still grappling with the economic divide (the first part of the digital divide).

While there are likely to be several backchannels at this year’s event, I wanted to take a moment to encourage Twitter users to interact at iDMAa with the primary conference hashtag: #iDMAa09.

We’ll be archiving all such tweets over on FriendFeed, where you are also encouraged to subscribe to the iDMAa 2009 Group.

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