Back for long enough to say that I’m very glad I didn’t submit a paper to the Digital Arts and Culture conference being held this week in Melbourne. And I feel bad for the people who did, who are being publicly excorciated by one of the conference organizers in the public conference blog right now. Imagine how the “emerging researchers” referenced here must be feeling. (Horrors! Academics wanting to cite a slew of useful references?) Or how about the misguided authors who wanted their images to appear in a specific place in their texts? Apparently “digital arts” don’t (or shouldn’t) allow for such precision.
Even if these struck me as valid complaints—which they don’t—I’m disturbed by their public nature. There are some things, it seems to me, that really ought to be limited to private exchanges rather than public posting.
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