I'm posting relevant portions of our emails to date, in the interests of documenting the collaboration. These have been edited slightly since they weren't originally written for public consumption (Everything's subject to further editing). These are the March emails; Feb. ones were posted below.

Kristin, 3/4/2004:

I put together an animated gif of some of our work. Let me know what you think. I didn't work too hard on it. I think we could text around the gif or supply them with a url rather than an image. It's late and I've had a rough day so this may be highly unsatisfactory.

Tomorrow I teach 12-10pm. i'll be working very hard to catch up with art-related matters over the weekend - getting materials to Laurence and Liz as a priority. I'm in New York for Spring Break March 10-22. Let's definitely get together, maybe a couple of times even to talk more about the collaboration.

I say 'dude' a lot now.
Kristin

Hi, Kristin, I like the .gif you made--it's dynamic and fun and gets across the music/video focus. Do you want to do the honors and send it to Liz, et al? I was planning to send them a link to my blog, FAQ page and online "critic cv"--I'll do that today and mention that you're sending the gif. Let me know if and when you're ready to start a collaboration page. It can start out as a private page and then be "launched" later. Best, Tom

Kristin, 3/4/2004:

cool, i'll send the gif. you can start the private page, although i won't be able to get going until saturday probably.
kristin

*i'm so busy this week. guess i put everything business off and it's all built up. i'll survive. actually i would really like to just do my own work right now! teaching is fun but time-consuming.

i'm making my freshman perform today. i'm going to make them play, rewind, ff, stop and record with only thier bodies.

Kristin, 3/7/2004:

Tom, Liz... here is the final animated gif that i made for the image page on fluent~collaborative's site. it's simpler and smaller in bytes. i think it flows better. Kristin

Hey, Kristin, The GIF you sent me before, which I put up on the provisional blog page was a lot smaller --156 kb, as opposed to this one, which is 364kb. It's sharper, but it really slows down in my browser. I actually like the graininess of the 156kb one. Can I keep using it on the blog page? Tom

Kristin, 3/7/2004:

yeah, sure, use the one on your blog page. it's way fewer frames in teh second one. sharpening really added to the byte size i guess. i wonder if i reimported it now and compressed it further if it would be smaller and still look great.???

i haven't been to our page yet because i couldn't get ANYTHING done this weekend with the weather this awesome. i now GET IT... that Austin hangin' out thing.

i'm practically worthless until sundown!
kristin

Kristin, 3/8/2004:

i had to give the designer a still image. i guess they do it in flash and the designer might not be so enthusiastic about putting it together as a shockwave flash. we'll have to do our animations for the weblog.

by the way, if i want to post anims and pics on the weblog do i need to send them to you?

here are a couple images that i sent. i cleaned up the one from your blog with a more clean image of my deejay movie.

Kristin

another still banner:

Tom, 3/9/2004:

Hey, Kristin, The pics look good. I wondered how they'd handle the moving gif. I notice they have a Flash and HTML version of the flue-collab page. I linked to the html version from the blog. Re: uploading pics and video-- Pics and animated gifs you can do now with your login. I can explain it online or over the phone at a time that's convenient. Jim's working on a new file system that will accommodate video files, and he's redoing the music-uploading system we have now. It should be in place in the next month or so. He knows about our collab. Glad to hear you're getting nice weather! Tom

Kristin, 3/10/2004:

this bird has landed in nyc. let's get together. kristin

Kristin, 3/10/2004:

yes, saturday is cool. i'm performing on the willy b bridge in the early afternoon. let's get together after that. want me to call when i wrap it up? it's more of a testing the water perf.

tues thru thurs is good to know. maybe we will benefit from a second and third meeting. even if it's officially more of a hangin' out austin style type gathering. kristin

Let me know if you want a testing the water audience and I'll come. Otherwise, sure, please call when you're done. Where should we meet? Would it be better for me to show you how to image-upload etc on an Apple (ie your computer)? This is assuming your logon works and you have the page powers you're supposed to have. Best, Tom

Kristin, 3/13/2004:

hey Tom,
i think i'm performing around 3pm along with one of my students who agreed to participate. we were going to walk dogs while wearing homemade uniforms but now we're playing the parts of both the humans and the dogs. we're going to walk over the williamsburg bridge and back wearing special 'sniff squad' uniforms, caps with stuffed animal dog ears sewn onto them, communicating to one another by walkie talkies and taking notes. we'll ask people if we can sniff their bags and gravitate toward conversation about missing civil liberties. it will be obvious that we are not 'cops' or 'intelligence agents'. i'm trying to find us kid statue of liberty sunglasses and our names will be something like 'Snoopy' and 'Pooch'. i do hope we are not arrested... or we'll have to reschedule our visit!

you can swing by if you are curious. i also wanted to do a performance where i selectively scan people's backpacks and bags through a series of cardboard boxes as they come on and off the bridge. i won't be doing this one saturday. i would rather test the water with the sniff squad first.

would love to get together after that. i'll give you a ring. joe says he can show me how to upload images. i'm sorry that i haven't been aggressive about getting started after we meet. i've got a lot of ideas to run by you.

ok. looking forward to seeing you tomorrow.
kristin

Hey, Kristin, It was nice seeing you last night. Turns out the N train goes to WTC after hours, contrary to the map and what I thought. I stood on the Prince St. platform for about an hour, watched another N and 3 Qs go by, and ended up walking downtown to the PATH, and got home at 1:40 am. Ridiculous. At least I had the Octavia Butler book to read. I am posting a Piserchia chapter and will notify you when it's up While you're in NY, can we make sure you can get on the Tree and can use the testsite blog? Here's the URL: http://www.digitalmediatree.com/testsite04.3/ Once you're logged on and your machine(s) have cookies, it's an easy way to communicate. I'd like to try it out and make sure there aren't any bugs.
Best, Tom
PS Thanks for the New Humans link. I'll keep an eye out for them.