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the field
In this section you'll find a comprehensive directory of media arts agencies, featuring profiles of NAMAC member organizations, as well as a big picture view of the field framed by research and stories from media arts professionals.
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RECENT ADDITIONS
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FEED |
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by Wendy Levy
of Bay Area Video Coalition
In our new “digital ecology,” it seems we are all producers. Our capacity to create and feed information, content, images, and identities from and to one another is now an experience and extension of the body so ubiquitous that not to do it can leave you feeling hungry and alone. A blank screen is like an empty stomach: no feeds (RSS), no tubes (YOU), no culture.
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Mapping the Media Arts Field |
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by Jack Walsh
of NAMAC
“Mapping the Media Arts Field” is a NAMAC research project that sets out to accomplish something long overdue—create a baseline assessment of the media arts nationwide.
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Bullfrog Films, California Newsreel, First Run/ Icarus Films and Women Make Movies announced the formation of a consortium to explore the establishment of a common internet portal for digital delivery of independent documentaries.
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GEMS FROM THE ARCHIVE
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MYTH |
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by Charlie Humphrey
of Pittsburgh Filmmakers
Once we agree (and most do agree) that myth isn’t a matter of fact or fiction, but rather a matter of belief, then we can come to understand the power of myth in both the narrative and documentary forms of media.
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MYTH |
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by Maria Venuto
of Standby Program
There was once a myth about the permanence of magnetic media that has been proven to be just that: myth.
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