Not what I expected…
So I’m back in Philly again after my weekend in Pittsburgh for the Technology in the Arts Conference at Carnegie Mellon.
My sister and I left Philadelphia at 4 AM Friday morning and drove up there in torrential downpours with only 2 hours of sleep. Needless to say we stopped at about every rest stop along the way for coffee, soda, and snacks. But, we made good time and arrived around 10 am.
The conference was not what I expected at all. First of all I was probably the youngest person there (which I guess made me feel good since it was my 22nd birthday this weekend and I’m starting to feel old). And second, the conferece wasn’t about collaboration of arts and technolgoy the way I envisioned it (ya know, like what I’m doing for my thesis). It was about how non-profit organizations in the arts can use things like websites, blogs, content management systems, etc. *Wamp Wamp
On a positive note, I met some cool people and I realized that a career in non-profit may be something I want to consider after graduation. Whenever people ask me what I want to do after I graduate I tell them I have no idea. I just can’t imagine doing all this work for my thesis and then just dropping everything in June. Maybe this is an option I can consider if I want to still work with dance and technology???