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16 Jun 2011 NAMACAdmin

White Paper: "The Color Line and US Cultural Policy: An Essay with Dialogue"

Author: 
Roberto Bedoya

From time to time, The National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture publishes white papers on issues of relevance to the cultural sector. Roberto Bedoya, Executive Director of the Tucson Pima Arts Council, wrote a paper entitled, "The Color Line and US Cultural Policy," that we are offering as a downloadable pdf.

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14 Apr 2011 NAMACAdmin

Honest Practice: How the Public Sector Can Look at Itself

Author: 
Howie Fisher

In this article the Transmission Project contests the convention of collecting “best practices” and offers in its place a narrative approach to assessing nonprofit organizations’ efforts to build their capacity. The Transmission Project calls this approach Honest Practice.

02 Jul 2009 Deborah Obalil

Opening Night Reception at MIT Museum

CommonWealth opening night reception to be held at MIT Museum.
30 Jan 2008 NAMACStaff

Using Scenario-Planning to Chart the Future

Author: 
Helen De Michiel
As we look at the broader dynamics of the social and political environment in which we participate as media makers, uncertainty is the only constant. One truth is undeniable: Across the independent media landscape people are once again caught in restrictive holding patterns, worrying about the same issues that have dominated our organizational conversations for years.
12 Dec 2007 NAMACStaff

Mapping the Field of Youth Media

NAMAC's Youth Media Initiative developed a questionnaire to collect information about youth media programs in the United States. Results of the first questionnaire are featured in a study published in A Closer Look 2003.
10 Dec 2007 NAMACStaff

Mapping the Media Arts Field

Author: 
Jack Walsh
“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. The project is critical to field-wide planning and to the long-term health and viability of our field. It is designed to capture empirical data about the field and to assess our economic, community, and creative indicators.

DIGITAL DIRECTIONS: CONVERGENCE PLANNING

Submitted by NAMACStaff on December 10, 2007 - 5:15pm
This report looks at the media arts field as its representatives are in the process of constructing possible futures, futures that carry their aesthetic and political values, and their organizations, into the emerging global media culture.
08 Jun 2007 NAMACStaff

Digital Directions: Conversion Planning for the Media Arts

Author: 
Helen De Michiel

It's coming, it's here. The digitization of our media world. Sorting through the techno-booster hype to neo-luddite hand-wringing is like dealing with earthquake preparedness here in the Bay Area. We're told that the Next Big One will strike within the next thirty years, but we can't know when or how close to home. Clearly inevitable, but hard to think about coherently on a daily basis. There is a certain amount of denial at work too, but we try to prepare the best we can, both practically and intuitively. The digitization of our media world is similar.

22 Aug 2005 NAMACStaff

The State of the Field: A Report from 2004 Regional Meetings

Author: 
Paula Manley
In 2004 NAMAC conducted four regional think tank discussions with media arts leaders in Atlanta, Georgia; Albany, New York; Columbus, Ohio and Lincoln, Nebraska. Representatives from a total of twenty-eight cities, eight states (including Tennessee, N. Carolina, Oklahoma and Kentucky) and sixty-six organizations were involved in thinking together about the direction of the media arts field. The think tank discussions also served to strengthen relationships and provide feedback to help NAMAC assess its services to the field.
27 Apr 2004 NAMACStaff

The State of the Field: A Report from 2003 Regional Meetings

Author: 
Paula Manley
In the fall and winter of 2003, NAMAC conducted think-tank discussions with media arts leaders in the Boston metropolitan area and the triangle area of North Carolina, including Chapel Hill, Durham, Wilmington, and Asheville. NAMAC sought to engage organizations in thinking together about the direction of the independent media field, to strengthen relationships among participating groups, and to generate information to help assess NAMAC s service to the field.