ABSTRACT

We always intended to have an exhibition. We wanted to find ways to communicate what we were doing to both local people who knew the moor and to a wide range of other people, academic and nonacademic. We wanted to solicit responses. But we held off during the first three years of the project. It is difficult to be involved on-site, battered by the daily grind, and to stand back sufficiently to mount a work-in-progress, and we probably also felt diffident about expressing our half-formed ideas. We had the same difficulties with getting the website up and running. It was only in the summer of 1998, when we had a certain degree of confidence in what we were doing and had already begun to express our ideas by more conventional means, that we moved into these interactive media.