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Featured Organization: Squeaky Wheel (Buffalo, NY)
Squeaky Wheel/Buffalo Media Resources is a grassroots, artist-run, non-profit media arts center that works to "promote and support film, video, computer, digital, and audio art by media artists and community members" in Buffalo and Western New York. Squeaky provides low-cost access to video and film equipment rentals and editing suites, offers workshops, and hosts screenings of independent and avant-garde film and video.
NAMAC releases 2011 Regional Report: Media Arts Organizations in the Evolving Digital Landscape
In 2010 and 2011, NAMAC set out to better understand the challenges, opportunities and emerging strategies for independent media arts organizations in the digital era. Through four regional gatherings, a total of 64 media arts leaders in Boston, Philadelphia, the San Francisco Bay Area and Texas shared their experiences. Following the gatherings, NAMAC commissioned a series of eight case studies to learn more. This Report from the Field synthesizes key findings from all four convenings and incorporates rich illustrations gleaned from the case studies.
Regional Report Profile: Termite TV
In 1992 three Temple University graduate students, Jim Ospenson, Merle Perlson and Michael Kuetemeyer, were so blown away by Manny Farber’s 1962 manifesto, "Termite Art Vs. White Elephant Art," that they formed the Termite TV Collective.
Regional Report Profile: Documentary Educational Resources
Although the explosion of public use and commercial monetization of the web dates back to 1995, it took most film distributors a good decade longer to harness the internet to distribute their films. One of the earliest “pioneers” of internet streaming and downloading is Cynthia Close, executive director of Documentary Educational Resources since 1993.
Regional Report Profile: Massachusetts Production Coalition and New England Talent and Crew
With a motion picture tax credit law passed in 2007, Boston has been attracting Hollywood films, creating jobs for a wide range of industry workers and benefiting smaller independent filmmakers as well. When the tax credit was threatened 2010, the community mobilized with the help of Facebook. Founded in 2005, the Massachusetts Production Coalition was the first and foremost industry group to work with the legislature and the governor toward passage of the Massachusetts motion picture tax credit.
Regional Report Profile: Video Association of Dallas
Bart Weiss's incomparable energy and enthusiasm for the art of media continue to drive the Dallas Video Fest, now entering its twenty-fourth year. Since 1986, the Video Association of Dallas, in Dallas, Texas has thrived through the effort of Weiss and a group of dedicated aficionados who love video art.
Regional Report Profile: PhillyCAM
Philadelphia’s independent film and video community has a flavor all its own, driven by community activism and a thriving creative culture. The emergence of PhillyCAM, after a decades-long grassroots campaign for public access television, typifies Phildadelphia’s community spirit.
Five Question Q+A with DIY Film Strategist Jon Featured Video: SPNN's One on One
Learn more about One On One, a weekly interview show that airs on St. Paul Neighborhood News Network (SPNN).
Regional Report Profile: SAY Sí
Located in the heart of San Antonio’s arts district, SAY Sí is an art studio that is home to upwards of 180 young artists, each year learning visual, theater and media arts free of charge.
