Subject: Re: ICMC2002
From: lseltzer@phoenix.Princeton.EDU
Date: Wed Jan 02 2002 - 14:01:30 EST
Vivian,
I agree with your posting. Some of my own experiences:
>Why change a winning pattern of exclusion?
Several years ago, when Simoni started teaching at Michigan,
she held a conference there on music and digital signal
processing and she invited speakers from numerous places.
I didn't see any women on the list. Having recently had
performances of my own DSP composition, Autumn Cove, Spring
Night, and being a professional DSP engineer, I was not
happy about being excluded. I wrote to Simoni and asked
why there were no women invited as speakers. She wrote
back and insisted that there was one woman. That was in the
days when I was still worrying about being polite, so I
didn't write to her dept chair and complain (nowadays I
wouldn't hesitate to complain).
>While my posts have gone through expressing the above to President Simoni, I
>also sent the post to the ICMA list, but it was not passed on to the members.
Once several years ago I was viciously verbally attacked by
a woman criticizing feminism on the ICMA mailing list, which
Simoni moderated. I sent a reply and Simoni didn't send it
out. Then she changed the policy, saying that the ICMA mailing
list was only for announcements and that a different list
would be created for discussions. I applied for the position
as moderator and was turned down.
One possible solution for this is for an ad hoc group of
ICMA people to organize an alternative computer music conference
on a weekend that doesn't conflict with the Jewish holidays.
I am not a member of ICMA now, however. Given the recession
and its effects in NJ, I can't afford dues to any professional
societies now.
Linda Seltzer
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