Five Question Q+A with DIY Film Strategist Jon Reiss.

Meet Ben Sheldon. Ben is Program Director at the Transmission Project, which will be closing its doors next month. He administers the Digital Arts Service Corps (formerly CTC VISTA Project), a national AmeriCorps*VISTA program that has built the capacity of media arts and technology organizations for more than 10 years.  [NAMAC's Rachel Allen, the interviewer, is a Digital Arts Service Corps member]

Ernesto Olivo is a Mexican immigrant from Nueva Rosita Coahuila. As a long time community organizer, he works with The Media Justice League a local media justice grassroots organization. He is part of Local 782, a San Antonio music coalition group of musicians and is currently doing art education in public schools for Artpace as an Associate Educator. He has played in many bands and manages the band Pop Pistol. He is a contemporary artist and uses his work to talk about multicultural and ethnic issues.

Meet Nina Simon. She’s the author of the Museum 2.0 Blog and The Participatory Museum and she’s been called a “museum visionary.” In our Open Dialogue and on our blog, NAMAC community members have been talking about the challenges museums and art house cinema houses face when trying to engage audiences who desire a more active role in curating their own experiences. Recently I had an opportunity to chat with Simon about her book and about what the "participatory museum" model looks like in action.