thoughts on the theme

Hi everyone, I was thinking about "distraction", and "the medium is the message." After reading Cris' post on communications, it struck me: why not "CONNECTEDNESS"? The mediums we work in today tend to be evaluated in terms of how they connect us to each (like the webcam video conference yesterday -- pretty amazing!) and how they disconnect us (also like the webcam video conference yesterday, when we got those weird sci-fi-looking compression errors).  Cellphones connect and disconnect us, so do our personal computers, social networking... and distraction is one way it disconnects (and maybe connects, too?) What does everyone think?

I'd also argue that IMPACT is all about connectedness -- because it is a multimedia workshop that celebrates our specialties and differences by bringing us all together for a chance to make art and to learn.  The final performance is the very embodiment of how our mediums/messages can powerfully connect us through art, despite different interests, which side of the ocean we came from, whether we dance or program computers or sing...