Re: <nettime> ISEA 2011 fees

[John Hopkins <jhopkins@neoscenes.net>]

hej Nicholas --

> I presume that there are many nettimers who are planning on attending
> ISEA 2011 in Istanbul this year. If you have not looked at the
> registration fees for the conference, prepare yourself for some sticker
> shock. The fees seem to be disproportionately expensive for a
> conference hosted at a university. Student fees begin at EUR250, with

Surprised? It keeps out the rabble ... between the registration fee and the 
flights and the hotels, and the lavish meals, well, when was the last time an 
individual without insitutional(ized) support could afford it?  It's an 
institution for the institutionalized...

jh


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