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Next President Should Launch the Digital New Deal
Read how, from a media arts perspective, the country needs a national broadband initiative and a “Digital New Deal.”
02 May 2006
Spying in the House of Sundance
NAMAC was long overdue to establish a presence at Sundance, so in January, our co-directors, Jack and Helen, went to the Festival. Our raison de venir was to proselytize by giving out our membership materials and publications, like Deep Focus, at the Filmmaker Lodge. We got into some movies, we attended some parties, we stopped in on some panels, we handed out our stuff. We shared a condo with our friends Michael Lumpkin and Jennifer Morris from Frameline. Helen stayed for the first weekend of the event, and Jack followed for the next three days. Because we were not there at the same time, we had some different experiences, which are recounted below.
Appalshop Meeting Report
In the April of 1998, Appalshop hosted a meeting of twenty mostly old timers from the media arts community nationwide to come together to talk about the state of this field, and hold a kind of strategy and brainstorming session. The question we were charged with answering (or at least talking about) was whether it was time to come together as a field with a bold, unified strategy.
