values
27 Apr 2012
Emergence
There's a quote from Gandhi I love: "To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages." Read literally, it is humane and compassionate and deeply true. But I also read it as a general principle, which leads me to this restatement:
To a people starving for meaning, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is art.
22 Aug 2005
The State of the Field: A Report from 2004 Regional Meetings
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.
26 Dec 2004
VALUE
Picturing a radical future - again! Of course, I know we are in for four more years of eroded rights. Of
course, I can anticipate the continued war with Iraq, the capitalist
schemes that further only a meager percentage of the population, and
battles where church and state are conflated. Of course, the things
that I value are devalued: education, history, diversity, culture. We
live in a state based on lies and deceit, built on fear and consumption.
27 Apr 2004
The State of the Field: A Report from 2003 Regional Meetings
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.
09 Jun 2002
The State of the Field: A Report from 2002 Regional Meetings
In the fall of 2002, the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC) collaborated with the Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers (AIVF) to present the Media Arts Environmental Scanning Tour of Regional Organizations (MAESTRO). With support from the National Endowment for the Arts, MAESTRO celebrated the media arts and encouraged connections among regional media arts organizations through a series of screenings, workshops and discussions in San Diego, Denver and Chicago.
26 Dec 2001
The State of the Field: A Report from 2001 Regional Meetings
Last year we asked NAMAC collaborator Paula Manley to design and facilitate a series of think tank discussions with staff leaders in the media arts. We undertook the project as a way to aid NAMAC in evolving its programs and services based on the experiences and needs of independent media organizations in the field. Paula's compiled findings are presented here for MAIN readers.
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.
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